For the past couple of years, the NYC Student Unionhas ended the school year with June workshops at M.S. 51, where many of us went to middle school. In these workshops, we teach 8th-graders, who...

The Department of Education just released statistics on the current crop of students who applied for gifted and talented programs, citing a whopping 45 percent rise in qualifying students: 3,231...

Morning and afternoon rallies will bracket lawmakers' workdays this Wednesday, May 6, with the focus squarely on kindergarten admissions. This year public school kindergarten admissions feature...

According to Department of Education spokesperson Andrew Jacob (and the revised 'final' timelineon the DOE website), the DOE plans to mail results from gifted and talented testing to families...

Our most recent poll, on school safety officers, showed a sharp split in Insideschools' online community -- 37 percent of parents said they understood and appreciated why school safety officers are...

The Department of Education announced on their website that score notifications for applicants to elementary school gifted and talented programs would not be released today, as scheduled, but on...

All eighth and ninth graders who applied to high schools should have a placement by today, although they may not all be pleased with their assignment. The 7,455 students who were not matched in the...

<!--StartFragment-->The hundreds of kindergarteners on waiting lists for schools all over the city are not the only sign of crowding in the schools, as many schools fear being forced to open...

After a stormy tenure as principal of MS 8, The New Preparatory Middle School, in Queens, and despite strong supportfrom the Department of Education, Principal John Murphy stepped down yesterday,...

I have an overactive imagination. I also have an acute sense of impending doom that I inherited directly from my grandmother: "If you're 5 minutes late, you're under a bus." This is a bad...

Only 100 parents attended the District 3 kindergarten lottery last week after the Department of Education announced that many popular schools did not have available seats. “Parents were...

This week, 8th-graders across New York City are taking standardized science tests, part of the battery of state tests public school students undergo every year. The National Assessment of...

As reporting and speculation about the emergent swine flu virus continues to dominate the local media, city health authorities urge caution and common sense precautions to prevent illness and...

Stories today in the Daily News and on the Huffington Post highlight parent frustrations with kindergarten enrollment; chatter we're hearing describes hundreds of children waitlisted for the most...

A new report released today says that for the 160,000 students with special needs, educational options and services have not improved much during the past seven years of Mayor Bloomberg and...

Later today, Chancellor Joel Klein will speak at the Harlem Success Academycharter lottery. Harlem Success, founded by former City Councilmember Eva Moskowitz, can't ever be faulted for thinking...

Since today is Earth Day, it seems a good time to mention that all New York City public schools are now members of the Green Schools Alliance, a national organization helping schools to cut their...

Last week one of my teachers raised a topic that brought up some difficult questions: He reminded us that if he knew a student was cutting him or herself, he was legally required to report them to...

Gotham Schools is reporting that embattled PS 20 principal Sean Keaton has asked for a meeting,via the Times' local blog, to hear parent concerns about his administration, citing coverage on...

The familiar honk of a fabled New York City mayor coursed across tens of thousands of telephone lines yesterday, as robocalls voiced by former Mayor Ed Koch reached out to parents to encourage them...

Talking about 'giving back' is easy -- yet too often, between the talking and the doing lies a deep gulf of good intentions. But volunteering doesn't have to mean giving up a career or sacrificing...

Our question about the Community Education Council vote drew an anemic response -- in itself, perhaps a reflection on the Department of Education'sfledgling effort atonline parent engagement. About...

The Department of Education has earned a reputation for making under-the-radar announcements in school 'slack times' -- often, just as a vacation begins. In its recent announcement of a $ 2.5...

It's Friday, and time for theInsideschoolscommunity poll. This past week, we asked about bullying in school, and the majority voice was clear -- zero tolerance for any kind of bullying, actual or...

Jacob Mnookin stood on the edge of the boardwalk in Coney Island, greeting the families who had come to witness the inaugural lottery for Coney Island Prep, south Brooklyn’s first charter school....