This week teacher's unions and state officials reached an agreement which would allow teachers to be judged partly on how well their students do on state exams as well as the judgment of principals. More new exams may...
District 28, a school district in central Queens is considering moving sixth graders out of elementary schools and into middle schools. Some parents in District 28 wish to streamline elementary school configurations to better enable students to get into the...
On Wednesday New York City and the United Federation of Teachers agreed to close "rubber rooms" which are teacher reassignment centers for educators that are located throughout the city and house educators who are accused of severe...
On Wednesday New York City and the United Federation of Teachers agreed to close "rubber rooms" which are teacher reassignment centers for educators that are located throughout the city and house educators who are accused of severe...
On Monday the New York City Department of Education retracted its threat to ignore the choices of 8,500 students who selected one of the high schools that the city planned to close until a Manhattan Supreme Court judge stopped...
New York City plans to incubate Kindergarten classes at Public School 290, a Ridgewood, Queens school inside of the building that houses Intermediate School 73 in Maspeth, Queens until the new building to house Public School 290 is completed in...
On Monday the New York City Department of Education retracted its threat to ignore the choices of 8,500 students who selected one of the high schools that the city planned to close until a Manhattan Supreme Court judge stopped...
According to New York City mayor Michael Bloomberg city schoolchildren should help their non-English speaking parents fill out the 2010 census because every New Yorker counted in the census brings the city an extra $3,000.Each of ...
This September the first day of school for New York City public school students will be on Wednesday ,September 8, 2010 and then they will have no school for two days afterward because of the Jewish holiday of Rosh Hashanah...
On Tuesday, a Manhattan Supreme Court judge has ordered the city Education Department not to send out high school acceptance letters for city eighth graders. This is resulting from the legal fight over the closing of 19 city high schools...