Middle school families inclined to celebrate the next President's inauguration in Washington D.C. faced a mighty calendar conflict, as the tests are slated to begin on January 20th, Inauguration...

By unanimous vote, the UFT board approved a plan to put hundreds of teachers in New York City's Absent Teacher Reserve back to work. The ATR program, estimated to cost DOE (and thus taxpayers)...

After my dog Maggie graduated from the Good Dog training program for therapy animals last week, my husband and I were asked to choose her first volunteer project. As we scanned a long list of...

In response to swirling confusion on this blog and other local parenting sites, here is the official, on the record, DOEsibling enrollment policy for prospective kindergarten students. Enrollment...

In a climate where standardized tests are praised and vilified, depending on your point of view, comes a study from the State University of New York, showing a strong correlation between SAT score...

by Jennifer Freeman, a member of the Community Education Council in District 3 Last Wednesday's Community Education Council meeting on school overcrowding in District 3, attended by hundreds of...

In a procedural 180, DOE has revised its plans for centralized kindergarten admissions. In January, their intention was to centralize the process -- much as the pre-K process was centralized this...

At the request of Public Advocate Betsy Gotbaum, the city's Independent Budget Officeundertook a review of DOEspending on accountability measures-- everything from the mythically plagued ARIS...

All the papers today cover the newly released high school progress reports. The Times has a good breakdown of grades and school size, the Newshighlights a significant bump in schools earning top...

Earlier this afternoon, DOE released progress report grades for the city's high schools. Here's the link to the new set of grades. Unfortunately, the new set doesn't show you what the schools...

Tonight's CEC 3 meeting might include a showdown between parents and administrators from two different schools that share one overcrowded building, wrote Insideschools.org alumna Philissa Cramer on...

City schools have to trim 1.2% from their budgets by Monday-- and just now, Gov. David Paterson says the state will cut back on planned support for the public schools. While Paterson says his...

_ UPDATE: The high school progress reports were released today and can be found on the DOE website. For real data-heads, all of the statistics used to compile the progress reports are available in...

At a Manhattan Institutebreakfast yesterday morning, held at the plush, posh Harvard Club, accountability bigwigs from the DOE, Columbia Universityand the Institute debated the effects of F...

In a new survey from Public Advocate Betsy Gotbaum's office, school psychologists and social workers say they're struggling under the dual demands of the education bureaucracy and the needy...

Buried in yesterday's Times, there's news of an October 16 court decision that implicates the DOE for lack of environmental oversight on a long-beleaguered new school project, planned on a toxic...

Last week I discovered that a friend of mine lives alone in an apartment in midtown Manhattan (at age 16) while the rest of her family lives in Pennsylvania. She gets along well with her mother and...

A week of bad budget and economic news does not bode well for the city’s high schools. The New York Daily News reported that the city's newly downsized capital plan includes plans for just two new...

The results are in! And it turns out that a Catholic school in Queens 'elected' the winning candidate... again. High school students in the South Bronx had been holding their breath earlier this...

Last night, parents crowded into a hot auditorium at PS 84 for the two Manhattan gifted and talented information sessions. With people sitting side-by-side and back-to-back along both aisles,...

Late yesterday afternoon, with little fanfare and zero public pronouncement, the DOE released its new capital plan for 2010-2014. Remarkably lower-key than the splashy launch of the first capital...

For euphoric New Yorkers still dazed and reeling in the post-election coverage, news of the city's financial woes -- and the Mayor's new capital plan, expected to be released today-- comes as a...

In order to accommodate voting machines and long lines of voters, there was no school today for city students (although teachers and administrators had to show up for professional development)....

Comments made by Anna Commitante at aparent forum this weekin Brooklyn seemed to contradict the posted, published gifted and talented handbookin regard to DOE policy on sibling preference. For...

Some spooky Halloween disappearing act (or perhaps a whisper from DOE?) may explain how a piece of investigative reportingvanished into thin air. Another surprise came from the UFT, in support of...