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...

Parents of preschoolers will soon be aware, if they're not already, of the application and testing process for gifted and talented programs. Last year, the newly centralized process was plagued...

As the high school search for my eighth-grader intensifies, I've been reading up on some interesting and relatively new schools. All are far from where we live and not at all convenient: Frank...

In today's Times, a retired social studies teacher and very proud papa got in trouble at Brooklyn Tech -- fined and reprimanded, for his decision as school librarian to showcase a comic-book...

Only a few days after the UFT sued the DOE for infringing on teacher's freedom of speech by forbidding them to wear political buttons on the job, the feds ruled against the union, satisfying...

Glorious fall days -- brilliantine skies, blazing foliage, crisp breezes -- promise soccer games and bike rides, country hikes and apple-picking adventures. But families of eighth-graders should...

As the stock market dips and swings, families at city private schools are considering switching to public schools, threatening to flood already-overcrowded schools. Officials in Riverdale, coping...

Three 6-12 schools already exist in Brooklyn's District 15 -- The Secondary Schools for Law, Journalism and Social Research, in the old John Jay High School building -- to mixed reviews, but the...