At Boys and Girls High School, a Way to Earn College Credits
Students at Boys and Girls High School in Bedford-Stuyvesant will have the opportunity to earn college credits while they work toward completing their high school diplomas in a new program announced...
View ArticleAt High School Fairs, Many Choices and a Few Worries
Middle school students in New York City had another opportunity this weekend to look over the city's high schools, this time at borough high school fairs, as they try to narrow down the choices for...
View ArticleA Score Card for Changing Schools
Sixty-two New York City schools are on a path to be closed or otherwise re-shaped this year. Here's a score card to help you keep track of what schools are affected and how.This post lists the 19...
View ArticlePrincipals' Union Condemns Plan for 33 Struggling Schools
Of the unions representing public school teachers and principals in New York City, the principals’ union had played a passive role in the charged and increasingly divisive dispute over an evaluation...
View ArticleHelp for College Students Who Are Illegal Immigrants
With New York's proposed Dream Act at a near standstill in the State Legislature, advocacy groups took matters into their own hands and financed scholarships for 10 illegal immigrants, The New York...
View ArticleAt One-Year Mark, Walcott Sees Improvement in Education Debate's Tone
Reflecting on his first year as chancellor of the city's schools, one marked by protests over school closings and the public release of teacher rankings, Dennis M. Walcott said that, in some ways, the...
View ArticleTeachers vs. Kenneth Cole
Happy May Day. Here's some of what's in the news this Tuesday morning:Kenneth Cole, the designer, has long been known for his topical slogans that use puns to promote his shoes, clothing and...
View ArticleContraceptive Program Prompts Only Mild Resistance
New York City has launched a pilot program in about a dozen schools that would give students access to the morning-after - or Plan B - pill in addition to other contraceptives and reproductive services...
View ArticleScores Rise Slightly on High School Progress Reports
Slightly more city high schools got A's and B's on their report cards this year, and fewer got D's and Fs. More than 500 public high schools, transfer schools and alternative programs received progress...
View ArticleMaking Sense of the High School Progress Reports
The inclusion of a college readiness category in the latest high school progress reports prompted online discussion about whether it should be considered when grading a school’s improvement over the...
View ArticleMore Schools Proposed for Closing Brings Total to 26
With an additional seven schools named Tuesday for possible phasing out, the Department of Education brought its total to 26 for the school year. The group includes two schools the D.O. E. would like...
View ArticleSchool Closure Decisions Remain Opaque
As the city prepares for another round of school closure hearings this month, presumably the last under Mayor Michael Bloomberg, community leaders in some of the affected neighborhoods have questioned...
View ArticleBasketball Finals Underway Across the Five Boroughs
Boys high school varsity basketball teams across the city competed in their respective borough's play-off games Tuesday night, getting a feel for the competition to be faced in PSAL's Division "AA"...
View ArticleSTEM Makes Headlines in School Newspapers
Between disc-tossing robots in Queens and a study on the structure function of Leptomycin B in Brooklyn, student reporters are on the STEM beat, covering the science, technology, engineering and math...
View ArticleDOE Identifies Struggling Schools for 'Conversations,' Not Closures
The Department of Education said on Thursday it has begun "school quality conversations" with 71 low-performing schools, with the goal of helping them create action plans for improvement.The annual...
View ArticleResignation Raises Questions About City's Plan to Help Failing Schools, or...
A lot of people who care about public education in New York City have been wondering what Chancellor Carmen Fariña is planning to do about the lowest performing schools. Since taking office in...
View ArticleCity Deal to Fix Two Struggling High Schools Includes Replacing Staff
Two Brooklyn high schools will begin reviewing all of their staff members to determine which ones will stay, while developing a longer school day for students, under a long-awaited intervention plan...
View ArticleAudit: New York Schools Lost Track of Computers, Tablets
An audit by Comptroller Scott Stringer's office raised questions about the city's technology purchases for schools, after it found more than 1,800 computers either missing or unaccounted for, and...
View ArticleMayor De Blasio Defends His School Improvement Plan
While Gov. Andrew Cuomo pushes for a state takeover of struggling schools, Mayor Bill de Blasio visited a second high school in two weeks to demonstrate how his own renewal program is already getting...
View ArticleSix More NYC Schools Land on State's 'Out of Time' List
Six schools already identified as struggling were given a new sense of urgency on Tuesday when the New York State Department of Education officially labeled them "out of time," a designation that could...
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