Some New York school districts are using remote learning for immigrant students afraid to attend school amid heightened deportation fears, a state official recently revealed. ( Photo: Jeff Billings/Wikimedia Commons) Some Schools Turn to Virtual Learning as Deportation Fears Keep Immigrant Students Home As President Donald Trump has ramped up deportations, some immigrant students across New York have been too afraid to attend... News 23 May 2025 | 02:58
Students in a statistics class at New Heights Academy Charter School in Harlem store their phones in pouches at the back of the classroom on Tuesday, May 6, 2025. A statewide cellphone ban will take effect this fall. ( Photo: Amy Zimmer / Chalkbeat) NY’s School Cellphone Ban: Exemptions, Enforcement, and Costs Explained Under a cellphone policy, announced last week as part of the budget deal between Governor Kathy Hochul and the state legislature,... News 14 May 2025 | 05:01
NYC Planning a School Cellphone Ban for February, Principals Say New York City, the nation’s largest school system, is considering a plan to ban cellphones in its roughly 1,600 schools starting... News 21 Jul 2024 | 04:16
In happier times, United Federation of Teachers president Michael Mulgrew and Mayor Eric Adams at City Hall after the city reached a new contract agreement with the public school teacher’s union in June. Now the union is suing to halt budget cuts. Photo: Ben Fractenberg, THE CITY Teachers Union Sues City to Stop School Budget Cuts New York City’s teachers union is suing Mayor Eric Adams in an attempt to halt nearly $550 million in school budget cuts,... News 29 Dec 2023 | 05:41
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
Cyclists Protest NYPD Criminalization Push Against Bikers for Traffic Infractions