Earlier this month we reported that 19 schools originally slated for closure would remain open next fall and we wondered where the new schools scheduled to open in those buildings would be...

With theJune 18 registration deadline looming for the city's elementary school gifted and talented programs, PS/IS 217 on Roosevelt Island is reaching out to eligible applicants in Manhattan and...

Sixty-five families whose children werewaitlisted for kindergarten slots next fall at two popular District 3 schools, PS 87 andPS 199, got unexpected and ultimately inaccurate news about their...

It's been a bumpy ride this spring for kindergarten enrollment in tiny District 1, New York City's only full choice district, located on Manhattan's Lower East Side. Parents claim that kindergarten...

While more than 6,600 8th graders are still sweating out this year's high school admissions process, it's time for the roughly 80,000 students in next year's class of 8th graders to start thinking...

Tour dates for schools that will be offering G&T programs in 2010 are now posted on the Department of Education's website. Click here to see the links for each borough, and for a list of all...

UPDATE 4:40 p.m. April 7: A new kindergarten waitlist released by the Department of Education shows that close to 1500 students (1492) are actually still on a waitlist, not the 1367 that was...

District 3 parents got official word late last week regarding the admissions policy for PS 452, slated to open in the PS 44building in September to alleviate overcrowding in a few Upper West Side...

Lower East Side parents from PS 188 and PS 94, a school for students with disabilities, with legal assistance from Advocates for Children of New York, filed a formal challenge to the New York State...

The first round of kindergarten applications for the 2010-2011 school year are due today, and already some schools have more applicants than seats available. However, new schools, and rezoning in...

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...

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...

After nine hours of parent, teacher, and politician testimony at a boisterous meeting at Brooklyn Tech last night, the Panel for Educational Policy rubber-stamped the decision to close 19 city...

Parents packed into the District 3 CEC meeting on Jan. 20 to hear Department of Education officials address the impact of charter schools moving into public schools in Harlem, and overcrowding in...

January 21 Update: Red Hook community members gathered before last night's public hearing atPS 15 to voice their discontent with the extension of PAVE Academy's co-location within PS 15. They...

Proposed changes in District 2 zoning attracted at least 100 parents on Monday night to the first of several meetings held to hear community concerns about new catchment areas for its popular...

This fall, kindergarten gifted andtalented programs opened in 27 of the city's 32 districts. That's in addition to five programs which are open to students citywide. Students who score at the 97th...

More than a year after dangerous levels of polychlorinated biphenyls were discovered in several New York schools, the caulk that contains the toxin still lines the windows and doors of some...

Although the first day of school is just two weeks away, some students, especially those new to the city, still don't know where they will be going to school on Sept. 9. Beginning next Monday,...

Word comes from Joyce Szuflita of  NYCSchoolHelpthat an interim acting principal was named at PS 20 in Fort Greene. The new principal, Lena Barbera, comes from a popular Boerum Hill school, PS 261,...

Summer break is hardly a vacation for more than 90 schools across the city that will be moving into new locations for the new school year. For some, moving means a home in a brand-new building,...

Sean Keaton, the controversial principal of PS 20 in the Fort Greene/Clinton Hill neighborhood in Brooklyn, was arrested Thursday after allegedly knocking a kindergarten teacher off a chair,...

As predicted by Health Commissioner Thomas R. Frieden and others, continued H1N1 exposure in New York City means that more individuals are being affected by the virus. While in most cases, symptoms...

Career educator Mitchell Weiner, who devoted his entire professional life to IS 238in Hollis, Queens, passed away on Sunday -- the city's first loss to H1N1 virus, commonly called swine flu....

Last night, I was one of 50 parents of students with special needs at a meeting called by Garth Harries, the new Senior Coordinator for Special Education at the Department of Education. Held at PS...