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...

Over the past week or so, we and others have written about the DOE's Garth Harries. He's in charge of the Portfolio office, which controls the closure and opening of schools, charter school...

More than 3,000 public school students from all over the city converged at the Harlem Armory this morning to watch the inauguration. The event was hosted by Democracy Prep Charter School (check...

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...

Budget cuts proposed by Gov. David Paterson threaten to trim the Department of Education's Office of Library Services a whopping 40 percent, according to Library Services Director Barbara...

TheDOEannounced today a 5-year, $55 million contract to electronically track records for students with special needs, both within the public schools and for a minority of students in private or...

Insideschools has learned that a sixth-grade student was mugged yesterday afternoon at J.J. Bryne Park in Park Slope, the city park that essentially serves as MS 51's de facto schoolyard,...

In a city like ours, with so many immigrant families and tens of thousands of students who are themselves first-generation citizens or born overseas, English Language Learners have long comprised a...

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...

Apparently neither rain, nor snow, nor sleet, nor hail shall keep potentially-gifted and talented tots from their testing. The Department of Education has announced that despite the foreboding...

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...

Astory in today's[Times](http://www.nytimes.com/2008/12/26/education/26fifth.html?r=1&ref=todayspaper)_ heralded the season of middle school admissions mania, since - according to the newly...

Parents of prospective kindergarteners, take note: The admissions process will begin in January 2009. For details, read the whole storyhere. Parents new to the process might also want to have a...

Last Thursday in District 3, the Department of Education and parents attempted haltingly to hold a conversation about what schools should replace the closing MS44 and PS241. I say “attempted”...

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...

Governor Paterson'sbleak budget previewproposes slicing hundreds of millions of dollars slated for education -- cuts that will inevitably affect the lives New York City's studentsand teachers in...

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...

Beginning this evening and continuing through the week, DOE representatives will host Middle School Choice Information Sessions,to help parents and students manage the middle school application...