Parents of disabled children are fearful that the city’s ambitious new plan to integrate special need students in regular classes will result in ever more confusion – and may not offer them better...

Dear Judy, I'm a currently a freshman and I hate my high school. I really want to transfer out. I want to talk to my guidance counselor about transferring but I have a few questions: 1. Can I get...

On their first day back at middle school last week, my eighth-grade son and his classmates heard three words many have been dreading all summer: high school admissions. “Can you believe they made...

The Coalition for the Homeless launched a back to school project to collect school supplies for an estimated 15,000 homeless kids who attend New York City public schools. Until September 17, the...

Letters to families who applied in the second round of pre-kindergarten admissions for this school year will be mailed by the end of this week, according to the Department of Education. An...

Yesterday in Sunset Park, Brooklyn, Mayor Bloomberg formally announced the opening of 42 new schools in September 2009. This brings the total number of new schools created during the...

Just a few weeks after Mayor Bloomberg warned that 14,000 city DOE workers, including teachers, might be laid off, Education Secretary Arne Duncan announced - at a Brooklyn charter school - that...

Borrowing a page from New York's senior senator's weekend playbook, the mayor on Saturday announced the DOE's intention to transform four languishing Catholic schools into New York City charter...

In a hearing that began promptly at 10 a.m. and continued well into the afternoon -- with testimony scheduled from more than 65 witnesses, including heavy hitters like Learn NY/Harlem Children's...

This weekend, the DOE is hosting a fair for New High Schools, at Clara Barton High School in Brooklyn -- but they still haven't published a complete, official list of all the new high schools that...

DOE officials have announced the phase-out of Brandeis High School, one of the last remaining "comprehensive" -- ie, large and struggling -- high schools on the Upper West Side. Current students...

About 27,000 eighth graders and their parents will learn next Thursday, Feb. 5, whether they will be offered seats at the city's eight specialized high schools, based on the results of the SHSAT,...

Parents who initially opted out of gifted and talented testing but have reconsidered now have an opportunity to sign their child up for testing: The DOE just announced an extension in the G&T...

More than 3,000 public school students from all over the city converged at the Harlem Armory this morning to watch the inauguration. The event was hosted by Democracy Prep Charter School (check...

Public charter schools straddle an uncertain divide -- with public money, they often serve targeted constituencies, from the consistently underserved to families looking for cultural connection and...

This week was filled with bad news for schools and students, but on the same day that the DOE announced it would close three schools, nine other city schools were lauded in US News as among the...

With thanks to Andy Jacob of DOE for the information below, here are answers to some questions from readers about the kindergarten admissions process, both general-ed and gifted and...

All the papers today cover the newly released high school progress reports. The Times has a good breakdown of grades and school size, the Newshighlights a significant bump in schools earning top...

The results are in! And it turns out that a Catholic school in Queens 'elected' the winning candidate... again. High school students in the South Bronx had been holding their breath earlier this...

Last night, parents crowded into a hot auditorium at PS 84 for the two Manhattan gifted and talented information sessions. With people sitting side-by-side and back-to-back along both aisles,...

Comments made by Anna Commitante at aparent forum this weekin Brooklyn seemed to contradict the posted, published gifted and talented handbookin regard to DOE policy on sibling preference. For...

Some spooky Halloween disappearing act (or perhaps a whisper from DOE?) may explain how a piece of investigative reportingvanished into thin air. Another surprise came from the UFT, in support of...

Hundreds of parents lined up at PS 58 last night in Brooklyn for information on gifted and talented programs. Info booklets, which were in short supply, describe the application and testing process...

On theTimes website nowand in tomorrow's paper, read Elissa Gootman's analysis of gifted and talented enrollment for 2008-2009 -- and weep. With half as many students enrolled in G+T programs --...

It looks like the city and the schools might get four more years of Bloomberg and Klein; when push came to shove, the City Council’s Education Committee was proportionally more supportive of the...