The controversial school bus contracts that led to a citywide strike earlier this year were approved last night in the Bronx and met with criticism from union leaders who had wanted to keep employee job protections intact.
5/23/2013 - By: NY1 News
The City Council has adopted a resolution allowing religious groups to hold services in public schools outside school hours and is now calling on the state Legislature to make it law statewide.
5/22/2013 - By: NY1 News
The city has agreed on a plan that officials say will accelerate the replacement of lights containing PCBs from city schools by the end of 2016.
5/21/2013 - By: NY1 News
The New York City Department of Education is pushing back against a City Council resolution that would allow religious groups to hold services in schools outside school hours. |
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5/21/2013 - By: NY1 News
Some adult students in Manhattan are worried about what will happen to their programs when a charter high school moves in with them in the fall, and a public hearing on the topic turned rowdy Monday night.
5/20/2013 - By: Michael Herzenberg
Parents and activists are suing the city in a civil rights case that alleges high school admissions policies concentrate minority students into underperforming schools, setting them up for failure.
5/20/2013 - By: NY1 News
Sen. Kirsten Gillibrand is proposing new legislation to allow current students and graduates to refinance their federal student loans, known as Stafford loans, at a fixed 4-percent interest rate, to keep the loans' interest rates from doubling in July.
5/19/2013 - By: NY1 News
Schools Chancellor Dennis Walcott stepped up to defend the mayor's education policies and blasted the mayoral candidates who want to change them during a Saturday speech.
5/19/2013 - By: NY1 News
The city Department of Education said it plans to spend about $100 million for training teachers, double the amount the city spent last year.
5/17/2013 - By: NY1 News
5/16/2013 - By: Josh Robin
Sources tell NY1 that the son of a construction union vice president became on Thursday the fifth suspect arrested in connection with the alleged stealing of 84 iPads from a Queens school badly damaged by Hurricane Sandy.
5/16/2013 - By: Natasha Ghoneim
Several students at The American Sign Language and English Lower School are siblings of deaf children, which means they have to be taken to school by their parents or use public transportation, and parents want buses to take those students to the school, too.
5/14/2013 - By: NY1 News
Dozens of parents in Brooklyn are scrambling to figure out activities for their young children after the Department of Health shut down a private school.
5/13/2013 - By: Michael Herzenberg
The Department of Education says Pearson made several mistakes in their grading formula for gifted and talented exams for city students.
5/10/2013 - By: NY1 News
City school officials are doing all they can to stop the spread of butter, and they say it's part of their ongoing fight to keep kids healthy.
5/10/2013 - By: NY1 News
Students, parents and teachers at a well-regarded school run by Jesuit priests in Brooklyn learned this week it's slated to close in September, but the principal is refusing to give up.
5/9/2013 - By: Lindsey Christ
City schools will now be required to conduct lockdown drills each year, in the wake of Hurricane Sandy and the Connecticut school shootings.
5/9/2013 - By: NY1 News
Some parents of students with disabilities are playing the waiting game to find out whether the city will pay for their children's education, and the decision has taken so long that officials are now breaking the law.
5/8/2013 - By: Lindsey Christ
The city had previously said that it would replace light fixtures in 645 schools found to contain toxic compounds called PCBs before 2021. Now, it says the job will be done "well before" then, but it won't say when exactly.
5/8/2013 - By: NY1 News
One of the city's largest unions, the service employees' union, 32BJ, says the city's most dilapidated school buildings align with it's poorest neighborhoods.
5/8/2013 - By: NY1 News
A major educational development project is moving forward, and it will make a big impact among its new neighbors on Roosevelt Island.
5/8/2013 - By: NY1 News
A light fixture emitting smoke in a classroom in a Harlem school sent nine students and two adults to the hospital Tuesday, prompting DOE officials to also conduct a test to determine if the classroom was contaminated with PCBs.
5/7/2013 - By: Lindsey Christ
Father Donald Harrington is stepping down as president of St. John's University after 24 years, an announcement that follows an investigation into fraud allegations at the school.
5/3/2013 - By: Mahsa Saeidi
As schools struggle to offer enough hands-on science, other institutions are stepping up and expanding an academic program they hope will train some of the next best scientists.
5/3/2013 - By: Lindsey Christ
A blown light in a Brooklyn school is stirring up long-standing tension over PCBs between public school parents and a charter school group.
5/3/2013 - By: NY1 News
Following an Appeals Court decision, the city has released all messages between the mayor's office and former Schools Chancellor Cathie Black regarding the controversial decision to hire her as the leader of the Department of Education in 2010. |
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5/2/2013 - By: Lindsey Christ
For the past two weeks, elementary and middle-school students have been taking standardized tests, tests the city will use to decide whether to close schools, give teachers tenure or hold students back. It's something the president of the national teachers 'union came to New York to try to stop.
4/30/2013 - By: Lindsey Christ
P.S. 244 in Flushing is now the first public school in the city with an all-vegetarian menu, and teachers say the school's meatless menu evolved over time and after consultation with parents.
4/30/2013 - By: NY1 News
More than 28,000 educators of special needs students are getting nearly $36 million in overtime after they said that as part of their jobs, they had to enter data into a computer system which was designed to replace paper records, but they said that the $80 million system was so slow, it unfairly added to their work day.
4/30/2013 - By: NY1 News
For the second time in a week, mayoral candidate and City Council Speaker Christine Quinn appeared with a member of the current administration to announce a major initiative, this time with Schools Chancellor Dennis Walcott to announce a pilot program that will increase the school day by two and a half hours for about 2,000 sixth graders.
4/29/2013 - By: Lindsey Christ
The Bronx district attorney's office says it has uncovered more than 25 Horace Mann School alumni who allegedly experienced sexual abuse from educators between 1962 and 1996, but authorities say the statute of limitations has run out for the alleged abusers to be prosecuted under state law.
4/27/2013 - By: NY1 News
It took weeks for all six children in the Charles family to get back to school after Hurricane Sandy and now, six months after the storm, they're still trying to catch up.
4/26/2013 - By: Lindsey Christ
A mayoral forum on the future of technology in the city turned into a critique on the Bloomberg administration's ban on cell phones in city schools -- every candidate said they plan to lift the ban.
4/26/2013 - By: Courtney Gross
Students chosen to attend some of the top high schools in the city are usually handpicked, especially for those programs that have specific focuses. However, next year's classes will have some students that did not go through the rigorous vetting process. |
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4/25/2013 - By: Lindsey Christ
A Brooklyn public high school paraprofessional was arraigned Thursday night on charges of raping a teenage student on 17 separate occasions, and Department Of Education officials were looking to fire her.
4/25/2013 - By: NY1 News
The school has been free to undergrads for more than 100 years, but now, the Board of Trustees at Cooper Union says those full-tuition scholarships will be slashed by half, starting with the class entering in the fall of 2014.
4/23/2013 - By: NY1 News
An New York University student was arrested Monday after police say they found five air rifles inside his Lower Manhattan dorm room.
4/23/2013 - By: Michael Herzenberg
David Petraeus, the former CIA director and commander of American forces in Afghanistan, has taken a job as a visiting professor at the Macaulay Honors College at CUNY.
4/23/2013 - By: NY1 News
A group of Horace Mann alumni who say they were sexually abused while they were students there said on Monday they want the private Bronx high school to appoint an independent investigator.
4/22/2013 - By: NY1 News
Schools Chancellor Dennis Walcott awarded grants to the top 10 schools in last year's Green Cup Challenge, as part of the Department Of Education's observance of Earth Day on Monday.
4/22/2013 - By: NY1 News