Families who covet seats at lower Manhattan's prize elementary schools PS 234and PS 89are legion -- and, if the Times' trend story is any harbinger, their number will climb in the coming...

President's week vacation is plenty popular among city parents -- nearly half said "don't change a thing" in our weekly poll. (Another quarter would trade away this break to start summer a week...

Earlier this week, the DOE released calendar guidelines for pre-kindergarten admissions. (Funny how these announcements often coincide with vacation season, when parents are more likely to miss the...

Just a few weeks after Mayor Bloomberg warned that 14,000 city DOE workers, including teachers, might be laid off, Education Secretary Arne Duncan announced - at a Brooklyn charter school - that...

Yesterday afternoon, Leonie Haimson of Class Size Matterssent out an email blast castigating the DOE's own class-size report for "increases ... at all grade levels" -- the biggest bump in the...

In a column unfortunately slated to run during the opening weekend of school vacation, NYT columnist Nicholas Kristof wakes up at last to the schoolyard bell: Education is the issue, and the key to...

CEC veteran and regular contributor Jennifer Freeman takes nuts-and-bolts questions about CECs in advance of the upcoming CEC elections. Q: Why should people run for their Community Education...

Want to try your hand at a high-stakes challenge? Gotham Gazette'snew game gives players a taste of the budget bitters -- stimulus package, education funding, tax breaks, budget cuts, union...

Last night in Queens, parents packed into an overfull auditorium to have the chance to address Garth Harries, who has been charged with reviewing DOE's provision of special education services...

In June 2008, the Community Education Council of District 3 passed a resolution recommending that future CEC members be chosen through public elections, as had been true for local School Board...

In yet another study that will stun savvy parents into a deep stupor, it's been 'exposed' that plenty of book-fair products aren't actual, legible books but playthings and decorations related to...

While awaiting word from the city's specialized high schools this week, I found myself saying meaningless words to my anxious 13-year-old:``If we lived in the suburbs,'' I told him, "You and your...

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...

More than 80 percent of the 700-plus readers who responded to our blog poll this week strongly objected to the proposal, advanced by the Mayor and Schools Chancellor Joel Klein, tolay off thousands...

Eighth-graders across the city learned this afternoon whether they had been offered seats at the city's specialized high schools, including the eight testing schools, for which student take the...

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...

Historically, most New York City high school students have been eligible to earn Local or more rigorous Regents diplomas. But reforms set in motion over a decade ago by New York State Regents now...

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...

<!--StartFragment-->I’ve been asked to provide some basics about what Community Education Councils are, and what they do. New CEC elections for all 32 school districts are coming up soon; a...

Rejection isn't easy to take, no matter how it arrives. When my toddler son didn't get accepted to a neighborhood pre-school more than 10 years ago, I was new to the concept of competition for...

Two recent Times stories bookend the issue of parent involvement. At the first Mayoral Control hearing, held by members of the State Asssembly last week, an engaged and occasionally boisterous...

We asked readers to weigh in on test-prep for children who will take the OLSAT exam as part of the gifted and talented application process. More than half of the poll's respondents, 56%, supported...

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,...