"Break a leg, Alan and Laura!" This was the phone message Brooks left on our friends' answering machine the night before the reading of their new musical. It's clear to us now that Brooks...

Letters to some 80,000 8th-graders awaiting news of their high school acceptances will be sent out beginning today, according to Chancellor Klein. Apparently no students were matched to any of the...

New York State Supreme Court Judge Joan B. Lobis ruled that the Department of Education (DOE) acted illegally in moving to close 19 schools, voted on at the January meeting of the Panel for...

March 26 Update -- On the eve of the spring holidays, and a seven day school vacation, the latest update on the DOE's website about the release of the acceptance letters is that there's really no...

Q: I've just been waitlisted by my first-choice college. Or, as they put it, they are "offering" me a "spot" on the waiting list. Does this really mean anything, or is it just another way of their...

March 26 Update -- The earliest a school can set its application deadline is April 1. Many schools, because of next week's vacation, set a later deadline. These dates can be found in the DOE's...

Still looking for a new school for next September? You may want to consider one of the 17 elementary or middle schools that will be opening next fall. Most have been in the works for awhile, but a...

MTA's vote on student Metrocards has been postponed, causing considerable anxiety for public school students and families waiting to learn whether their free fare cards will stay, go away, or be...

Update 3/30/10: Letters have been mailedto the homes of 70,000 applicants, rather than given out at school, as a result of the March 26 Supreme Court ruling in the case which had delayed their...

In last week's poll, we asked how the kindergarten admissions process was treating you. Only eight percent of parents are "all set," while 54 percent share some level of concern. See our recent...

All around the city, schools are embracing and thriving on green. Some are learning about climate change from teacher resources like Earth Day NY or Facing the Future. Others are building green...

Long-awaited "main round" high school acceptance letters to 8th graders MAY be delayed, according to a report in today's Daily News. The letters with high school matches,due to be delivered to...

After approving 19 school closures in January and 16 colocations in February, the Panel for Education Policy will vote on more than a dozen school utilization changes in March and April. Eleven...

Q: I will be applying to universities in the U.S. from France. My English is fluent and I lived in the U.S. as a child. My father is American, my mom is Colombian, and I have an American passport....

The 1,082 page, 20-year-old world history textbook sits on a desk next to the 1,114 page biology book. They weigh in at a good five pounds each. There’s no more room for them in the already...

This week New Yorkers gathered in each borough to protest MTA layoffs, budget cuts, and the cancellation of student MetroCards. The Insideschools staff was wrapping up its workday Thursday when...

Mandy Hass is a parent at Lower Lab, as well as the director of marketing and business development for Insideschools.org. Last week's Village Voice cover story, Inside a Divided Upper East Side...

Got time for a protest today? Join The Alliance for Quality Education, and other other community and education groups, at one of 18 protests against statewide education budget cuts. There's at...

The Department of Education is launching elections for a new citywide council composed of parents of students who are learning to speak English -- known in DOE parlance as "English language...

Parent-teacher conferences scheduled to take place today [Thursday, Feb. 25] at New York City intermediate and junior high schools will be rescheduled due to poor weather conditions, reports the...

The Panel for Educational Policy approved 13 charter school colocation proposals at its monthly meeting, held Wednesday night at the Fashion Industries High School in Chelsea. New York City...

In a surprising change of course, the Department of Education announced that it will cancel plans to move a charter school into a Bronx vocational high  school. The DOE's decision comes after...

In our last poll, we asked how you feel about your school's lunches. Fifty-eight percent of you said your school does NOT serve healthy lunches. Twenty-three percent said the food is healthy....

A few weeks back, Insideschools attended the yearly New High Schools Fair. We were lucky enough to speak with faculty and staff from each  school about their hopes and plans for the 2010/2011...

There are many reasons why high school choice in New York City is so fraught and frightening for parents. In a city where parenting can resemble a competitive sport, important questions abound. But...