The Education Committee of the New York City Council convened a hearing yesterday on the DOE's nascent reorganization of special education. It's the third planned reorganization of special ed since...

Today at noon, Mayor Bloomberg will give his annual budget address-- the last before the November election. The mayor's budget is expected to include 23,000 job cuts, nearly a billion in new taxes,...

This afternoon, the DOE announced that 26 schools will take occupancy on 22 new or improved sites in Sept. 2009, including six entirely new school buildings. Part of the Mayor's $13 billion, 5-year...

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,...

I always know when the New York State tests are coming up, and not because I hire tutors or visit the many websites that offer practice tests and tips, including the state education department. It...

Earlier this week, DOE announced a new data-management system for special education studentsin the city's schools. Hard on its heels comes news, thanks to GothamSchools' Philissa Cramer, that DOE...

Middle-school families across New York City now join the ranks of high-school applicants and their parents: The waiting game is in full flower, with everyone on tenterhooks, hoping for good news...

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...

Yesterday, the DOE announced the phaseout and eventual closure of Bayard Rustin High School in Chelsea. No new 9th graders will be permitted to enroll in September 2009. The news landed hard on...

As students poured out of Bayard Rustin High School for Humanities this afternoon, most of them were discussing the news that principal Nancy Amling had announced during fourth period: the...

<!--StartFragment-->To the extent that parents' voices are represented in the New York City education system these days, Community Education Councils are charged with representing them at the...

The Globe today highlights an MIT/Harvard study of Boston-area charter and 'pilot' schools, in which charter schools steadily outperformed both the pilot schools -- essentially, charter-style...

While thousands of fifth graders will hand in their middle school applications on Friday, approximately 2,000 sixth graders will sit for the Hunter High School admissions exam. A recent Times...

Imminent budget cuts to the city's schools will hamstring some programs, and simply erase others, like after-school activities and non-academic enrichments, depending on how individual principals...

Before New Years Eve celebrations begin, we wanted to point out a New York Times storythat you may have missed while away from your computers during last week's holiday rush. The premier high...

A worried, back-to-the-1970s fatalism seems the mode du jour: ACS may fall deeper into debt or lose funding, doubts about funding for class-size reduction,and a bleak overallanalysis that predicts...

It isn’t easy getting information from a 13-year-old, which is one reason I’m at least mildly curious about the interviews my son had as part of the torturous high school application process. “So...

In a story that's not made many headlines at all, Education Week reports on a new rule by the US Department of Education that permits parents of students with special needs to opt outof classes and...

Some semi-heartening news this week: American students seem to be improving in math, according to the world’s largest survey of math and science achievement, the Trends in International Mathematics...

In a good economy, college grads go to work; in a bad economy, they go to grad school. So goes the long-held thinking -- but it seems that the current crop of incipient grads has other ideas, if...

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...

If anyone tells you the high school process in New York City is relatively painless, don’t believe them. Would you believe someone who told you they breezed through high school and loved every...

The DOE's repeating the 'hybrid' middle-school admissions process it piloted last year -- applications and calendars centralized by DOE but individual schools, programs, and districts setting...

My 13-year-old son turned to me on Sunday morning with the first expression of genuine interest – and fear – since the search for a New York City public high school began this fall. He made this...

As themarkets continue to slide and tumble, the City Council takes up the issue of education budget cuts in hearings today. See Gotham Schools' preview here, or go downtown and watch the wheels of...