Tensions flared at an Aug. 9 parent meeting over how selective New York City high schools choose their students. ( Aaricka Washington / Chalkbeat) Debate Over Admissions to NYC’s Selective High Schools Heats Up At Parent Meeting Debate over how selective New York City high schools choose their students erupted Aug. 9 as members of a parent advisory... News 15 Aug 2023 | 11:24
Matthew Cho, 19, who is legally-blind, is a recipient of the $10K Lighthouse Guild scholarship. ( Photo Credit: Lighthouse Guild ) Two Legally Blind UWS Teens Receive $10K Scholarships Matthew Cho and Emely Recinos, two teens from the Upper West Side, were among 15 legally blind teens recently awarded $10,000... News 18 Jul 2023 | 12:50
Mayor Eric Adams (at lectern) and UFT president Michael Mulgrew clasp hands after reaching a new tentative five year pact between the city and the teacher’s union. Photo: Mayors Photography Office City and UFT Reach Tentative Pact, but Many Teachers Want it Voted Down Mayor Eric Adams and the United Federation of Teachers reached a tentative contract agreement on June 13 that would begin... News 11 Jul 2023 | 11:23
The exterior of Edward A. Reynolds West Side High School. Parents at the transfer school have joined a lawsuit seeking to preempt its “swapping” with a smaller school in East Harlem, The Young Women’s Leadership School. ( Photo via Google St. View ) Parents Suing To Prevent West Side High School Swap Denied Temp Injunction...Will Seek Permanent Relief In July Parents of students at the Edwards A. Reynolds West Side High School are seeking to quash the Department of Education’s planned... News 30 Jun 2023 | 04:14
Students who will have to start repaying student loans in the fall may be feeling a lot like the character depicted in The Scream, by Dutch painter Edward Munch. Photo: Wikimedia Commons/Reproduction of painting in the National Gallery, Oslo Student Loan Payments That Were on Hold During the Pandemic Will Be Due Soon NEW YORK (AP) - After three years, the pandemic-era freeze on federal student loan payments will end this fall. It might seem... News 29 Jun 2023 | 01:57
Eleanor Williamson taught in her native Jamaica and then Canada before starting as a teacher at the Urban Assembly School of Design and Construction 14 years ago. Photo: Department of Education Developing Sense of Community Is Greatest Joy for Award Winning NYC H.S. teacher New York City public school teacher Eleanor Williamson has won the Math for America MfA Muller Award and a $20,000 prize,... News 12 Jun 2023 | 12:48
Students in Summer Rising program in 2021 which had to turn 45,000 kids away this summer. Photo: Christina Veiga, Chalkbeat Summer Rising Program Rejected 45,000 Kids, Launching Scramble for Child Care Roughly 45,000 children have been shut out of New York City’s free, popular summer program, education department officials... News 26 May 2023 | 11:10
Mayor Eric Adams (at mic) and Department of Education CEO David Brown (right) are pushing a return to a phonics based system, since reading scores in NYC elementary schools have declined under the old system. Michael Mulgrew (left), head of the United Federation of Teachers, said teachers endorsed the sweeping change in the way reading will be taught going forward. Photo: Ed Reed/Mayoral Photography Office DOE Pushes Return To Phonics, Citing A Crisis That Shows Half Of Kids Not Proficient In Reading With more than half of the city’s elementary students reading below proficiency levels, the department of education is rolling... News 15 May 2023 | 02:53
Governor Kathy Hochul wants to increase the number of charter schools in New York City by reissuing news licenses to charter schools that have shut down. Ascend is a network of charter schools currently operating in the city. Photo: Flickr. Hochul Compromises On Charter Schools, But Still Pushes For Reissuance of Zombie Charters Governor Kathy Hochul has indicated that she may negotiate a compromise when it comes to charter schools, allowing for the... News 28 Apr 2023 | 02:23
PS 267 on E. 63rd St. where former PTA co-treasurer Marc Haynes was sentenced to 2 1/2 to 5 years in prison for stealing nearly $186,000 from the school’s PTA fund between Oct. 2020 to July 2021. Photo: NY Post/Google Maps. Former PTA Co-President Heading to Prison for Stealing $$$ from UES Elementary School Fund A former co-president of the PTA at an Upper East Side elementary school was sentenced to 2 1/2 to five years in prison after... News 19 Apr 2023 | 04:44
Laguardia HS of Music & Art and the Performing Arts, the inspiration for the “Fame” movies and television series, is searching for a new principal again as its incumbent who took over in 2019 said she is leaving on March 2. Photo: Christina Veiga / Chalkbeat “Fame” Is Fleeting: Principal of Laguardia H.S. Steps Down Suddenly Yeou-Jey Vasconcelos, principal of Manhattan’s famed LaGuardia High School for Music & Art and Performing Arts, is leaving... News 20 Feb 2023 | 11:00
Guardian Angel School on Tenth Ave. and 21st St., which is over 122 years old, will shut its doors for good at the end of the current academic year as part of a new round of closings by the Archdiocese of New York. Photo: Keith J. Kelly Guardian Angel, the Last Catholic Elementary School in Chelsea, to Close Guardian Angel, nearly 123 years old and the last Catholic elementary School left in Chelsea, will shut down at the end of... News 19 Feb 2023 | 07:32
Ascension School, which was built by German immigrant laborers on the upper west side in 1897, is among 12 Catholic schools in the city that are closing. Photo: Kay Bontempo. Stunning News: 126-year-old Ascension Among 12 NYC Catholic Schools to Shut Down Stunned parents and teachers learned that 126 year old Ascension School on West 108th St. is among 12 Catholic elementary... News 17 Feb 2023 | 04:44
Ascension School on West 108th Stret is among the Catholic schools closing in Manhattan. Photo: Kay Bontempo Parents Stunned as 126-year-old Ascension School Slated to Close The Ascension School on West 108th St., which has been open since 1897, will close at the end of the current school year,... News 17 Feb 2023 | 02:26
After existing for nearly 160 years, the Immaculate Conception School on East 14th will close at the end of the school year, one of five Manhattan Catholic schools and 12 overall schools that are being closed by the Archdiocese of New York for financial reasons. Photo: Keith J. Kelly Five Catholic Schools in Manhattan to Shut Down at End of Current School Year Five Catholic elementary schools were among the 12 across the New York Archdiocese that will be shutting down at the end... News 16 Feb 2023 | 12:17
