Mayor de Blasio: Testing 4-year-olds for gifted programs is a 'real concern'
Mayor Bill de Blasio said using a single test to determine if 4-year-olds qualify for city gifted and talented programs is “a real concern" The post Mayor de Blasio: Testing 4-year-olds for gifted...
View ArticleMom warned Bronx Wildlife school her son had a knife two years before fatal...
The report comes just days after Cedeno was sentenced to 14 years for killing Matthew McCree. The post Mom warned Bronx Wildlife school her son had a knife two years before fatal stabbing. Now, NYC...
View ArticleHas the ‘culture war’ come for NYC schools? What you should know about that...
Some close observers of the city’s schools have struggled to recognize the school system Packer is describing. The post Has the ‘culture war’ come for NYC schools? What you should know about that...
View ArticleAnswering activists, NYC unveils plan to make classroom instruction more...
The DOE said it will begin evaluating its core curriculum offerings based in part on whether they include materials that represent students of different backgrounds. The post Answering activists, NYC...
View ArticleTo boost literacy, this Queens school is training support staff to teach reading
Deploying paraprofessionals to help teach reading is a core element of the school’s strategy to boost literacy. The post To boost literacy, this Queens school is training support staff to teach reading...
View ArticleA contest to design 40 ‘innovative’ NYC schools offers few clues of what...
The city is calling for teams of students, parents, and teachers to develop proposals to open or overhaul dozens of schools with an eye toward “innovation.” The post A contest to design 40 ‘innovative’...
View ArticleA two-tiered system: Families who can’t afford private evaluations struggle...
The evaluation process is complicated for parents to navigate — and savvy families who can pay for private evaluations have a big advantage. The post A two-tiered system: Families who can’t afford...
View ArticleStudent suspensions fall sharply in New York City, reversing an unusual bump...
The total number of suspensions decreased 10.5% in the 2018-19 school year to 32,801, according to data released Friday by the education department. The post Student suspensions fall sharply in New...
View ArticleSuspensions dropped significantly last year. Here are the numbers for every...
In all schools issued 32,801 suspensions during the 2018-19 school year, a 10.5% decline compared with the year before. The post Suspensions dropped significantly last year. Here are the numbers for...
View ArticleNYC students see uptick in delays on special ed evaluations, violating legal...
An increasing number of public school kids were delayed in getting evaluated for special education services last year, violating federal timelines. The post NYC students see uptick in delays on special...
View ArticleHere’s what we know — and don’t know — about NYC’s plan to create and...
In the weeks since Mayor Bill de Blasio announced a $31 million competition to open or overhaul 40 schools, officials launched a whirlwind tour across the city to get the word out and convince...
View ArticleAmid infighting, Chancellor Carranza has stopped attending his own parent...
A parent advisory group charged with offering feedback to New York City’s schools chancellor is going to be missing a key audience member in the foreseeable future: the chancellor himself. Chancellor...
View ArticleSelective Bard High School wants to open in the Bronx, but it may have to...
A small network of coveted public high schools where students can earn an associate degree by the time they graduate is vying to launch a campus in the Bronx through a new competition to open 20 city...
View Article1,713 cases, one hearing officer: How NYC's special ed complaint system has...
This is part of an ongoing collaborative series between Chalkbeat and THE CITY investigating learning differences, special education and other education challenges in city schools. Thousands of...
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90 teams advance to next round in NYC's $31 million competition to open or...
Dozens of teams applying to open new schools in New York City — or overhaul existing ones — are receiving invitations this week to move to the next round of a $31 million competition announced earlier...
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Five years later, NYC schools still struggle with de Blasio’s cell phone policy
Principal Gail Lambert had a problem: Cell phone use was out of control. Not long after taking the helm three years ago of the Brooklyn Academy of Science and the Environment, known as BASE, she was...
View ArticleNYC Schools Deputy Chief of Staff arrested, accused of using a computer to...
David Hay, the deputy chief of staff to schools Chancellor Richard Carranza, was arrested Sunday on charges of using a computer to facilitate a child sex crime, officials said. Hay was taken into...
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Senior NYC school official charged with attempting to lure a teen to a hotel,...
David Hay, the deputy chief of staff to schools Chancellor Richard Carranza, was charged Friday with child enticement and possession of child pornography, according to the U.S. Attorney’s Office in the...
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After a wave of anti-Semitic violence, NYC schools plans curriculum to combat...
In the wake of a string of anti-Semitic attacks in and around New York City, schools Chancellor Richard Carranza said Friday the education department is developing a new curriculum about hate crimes...
View ArticleThese NYC parents struggled to find schools that would address dyslexia. Now...
This is part of an ongoing collaborative series between Chalkbeat and THE CITY investigating learning differences, special education and other education challenges in city schools. When Emily...
View ArticleAfter boycotting his own advisory group, Carranza returns — slamming Cuomo in...
Returning to his parent advisory group following a monthslong boycott, Chancellor Richard Carranza dished on inequities in parent association funding, discussed a revised strategy for integrating...
View ArticleCorinne Rello-Anselmi, NYC's top official for special education, is set to...
Corinne Rello-Anselmi, a senior education department official who helped oversee the city’s sprawling special education bureaucracy under three chancellors, is planning to retire this month. “I think...
View ArticleMayor de Blasio’s NYC budget proposal calls for cuts to teacher training
Mayor Bill de Blasio unveiled his preliminary budget proposal Thursday, which includes significant cuts to teacher training. The $95.3 billion proposal for Fiscal Year 2021 takes a more cautious and...
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This Queens high school thinks it can be a model if NYC ditched selective...
Students in a horticulture class at Veritas Academy in Queens were scooping soil into plastic soda bottles with sawed-off bottoms, creating mini-ecosystems with layers for plants, compost, and a small...
View ArticleNYC’s community schools program is getting results, study finds
Mayor Bill de Blasio has staked much of his education agenda on improving high-need schools by flooding them with hundreds of millions of dollars worth of additional social services and resources,...
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Nearly 2,000 NYC children with disabilities could be stranded without pre-K...
This is part of an ongoing collaborative series between Chalkbeat and THE CITY investigating learning differences, special education and other education challenges in city schools. As many as 2,000...
View ArticleFor the first time in 7 years, the Bronx is getting a new district high school
Ben Wild spent much of high school bored or in trouble. “I had a really difficult time finding the stuff they were teaching me to be relevant and applicable to my life,” he said. "I got in a lot of...
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New York City has a new special education chief: Christina Foti
There’s a new official in charge of New York City’s special education system — a post responsible for some 230,000 students classified as having special needs. Christina Foti took over the job on...
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Vowing to expose ‘systemic racism,’ former Queens high school teacher heads...
This story was originally published on Feb. 4, 2020 by THE CITY. A federal case alleging repeated discrimination at a Queens high school heads to trial Wednesday — with the one teacher remaining in...
View ArticleDe Blasio adds little to his education agenda in ‘State of the City’ speech
When Mayor Bill de Blasio took the stage Thursday to deliver his annual address to outline his priorities, he declared that it is “not your typical State of the City.” But in terms of education, it...
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What NYC’s departing special education chief learned overseeing the nation’s...
This is part of an ongoing collaborative series between Chalkbeat and THE CITY investigating learning differences, special education and other education challenges in city schools. When Corinne...
View ArticleA Bloomberg-era policy to reduce suspensions boosted test scores in NYC,...
It’s a question that has roiled educators across the country: Does limiting suspensions promote student learning, or lead to more chaotic classrooms? A new study focused on New York City middle schools...
View ArticleNo immediate plans to close NYC schools as coronavirus threat escalates,...
There are no immediate plans to cancel classes in the nation’s largest school system in the face of growing concern about the coronavirus, officials said Wednesday, urging calm while acknowledging the...
View ArticleStay home if you're sick. Wash hands regularly. In NYC schools, following...
Less than 24 hours after New York reported its first confirmed case of the coronavirus, top city and state officials urged calm while also announcing new efforts to disinfect schools across the state....
View ArticleWill coronavirus-related absences count against NYC students in admissions?...
In New York City’s dog-eat-dog world of applying to competitive public middle and high schools, even a single absence from school can count against a student. So when top city officials began urging...
View ArticleAmid coronavirus fears, the CDC told schools to plan for remote learning....
As schools grapple with responding to the new coronavirus and the federal government’s recommendation to plan for extended closures, one thing is becoming clear: remote learning remains a remote...
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NYC teacher showing signs of coronavirus spent days in the classroom after...
A New York City public school teacher who vacationed in Italy during the February winter break is set to undergo testing after experiencing possible coronavirus symptoms. The teacher told THE CITY she...
View ArticleNYC schools scramble to track student and teacher travel amid coronavirus threat
The city’s education department is taking an inventory of school trips as concern about the spread of the coronavirus grows, officials announced Thursday. The global spread of the virus coincided with...
View ArticleNYC’s latest official to join an encrypted messaging app: The education...
Senior city officials, including the mayor himself, have communicated using an encrypted messaging app, drawing complaints from good government groups since the messages can skirt public records laws....
View ArticleCoronavirus and New York City schools: Get the latest updates
We're monitoring the coronavirus situation in New York City and its impact on the school system. Check back for the latest information. The latest number of positive cases of coronavirus in New York...
View ArticleNYC schools to close Monday for at least 4 weeks amid coronavirus pandemic
New York City public schools will close down Monday through at least April 20 to stem the spread of the new coronavirus pandemic, a decision that has sweeping ramifications for the city’s 1.1 million...
View ArticleNYC high school offers are coming this week with a big change: waitlists....
Amid the incredible uncertainty the coronavirus outbreak has created for the nation’s largest school system, as more than 1 million students out of school for at least four weeks, one aspect of the...
View ArticleThousands of NYC students won’t have access to computers before remote...
More than one million New York City students are slated to begin remote learning next week, but the education department acknowledged Thursday that it could take weeks before all students have the...
View ArticleA Brooklyn principal has died from coronavirus complications, the first known...
A Brooklyn principal has died due to complications of the coronavirus, the first known death of a New York City public school staff member connected to the epidemic, city officials confirmed Monday...
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The 'new reality’ of coronavirus: Here’s what NYC's first day of remote...
Class was in session Monday morning in New York City, even as school buildings were shuttered. Teachers fired up laptops from their kitchen tables and living room couches. Students logged on to...
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Brooklyn principal hospitalized after another principal in the same building...
A Brooklyn principal who worked in the same building as another school leader who died from the new coronavirus is now hospitalized, city officials said Tuesday. Ronda Phillips, the principal of Kappa...
View Article‘A tremendous loss’: Brooklyn third grade teacher dies from coronavirus
A Brooklyn elementary school teacher described as an "amazing hugger," and who pushed to make sure her students always had interesting books to read, died from complications of the new coronavirus,...
View ArticleNYC forbids schools from using Zoom for remote learning due to privacy and...
New York City has banned the video conferencing platform Zoom in city schools weeks after thousands of teachers and students began using it for remote learning. The education department received...
View ArticleAs NYC bans Zoom for online learning, some schools pause live instruction
Eighth grader Jadeyn Madhere felt like she was hitting a groove with remote learning. She enjoyed her teachers’ 15-minute live mini-lessons with opportunities to ask questions. Her all-girls...
View ArticleDe Blasio proposes over $221 million in NYC education cuts, including pre-K...
Citing the coronavirus pandemic, officials announced a series of cuts to New York City’s budget on Tuesday, including hits to school budgets and some of the mayor’s core education priorities such as...
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