With no funding for tutoring and after school programs for the rest of the year, some schools must be turning to free labor to provide those important services. I just heard that Learning Leaders,...

Arlen Benjamin-Gomez/Insideschools, AFC This was the scene yesterday at the student-run "Broken Hearts" rally against the budget cuts. We've heard that the kids there were pretty fired up --...

According to the Daily News, the DOE is spending $32 million— more than three times what it spent last year — to grade standardized tests this year. New state and federal laws require teachers...

Thank you guys for all of the positive feedback, it feels great to know that I have some support! Wednesday night was the Bronx Science open house, and therefore a good chance to get a feel for...

One more dispatch from last night, where I was surprised to hear several speakers thinking about the possible long-term economic effects of the budget cuts. Ziporah Steiner, principal of Maxwell...

Today at 4 p.m., Students Against the DOE Budget Cuts, a new student-organized group that looks like it's getting support from NYCORE and Time Out From Testing, will be holding a march on Tweed to...

While the response to the budget cuts started quietly and informally, it's now shaping up to be a loud, organized expression of years of frustration with the way the mayor and chancellor have...

At a strategy meeting tonight at Brooklyn Borough Hall, City Council member Bill deBlasio emphasized that the recent budget cuts are "huge, reversible, and represent broken promises," staying on...

NYC's students are taking action. In response to the city's and state's recent education budget cuts, a group called Students Against DOE Budget Cuts has organized a protest on the steps of Tweed...

The head of the American Federation of Teachers, the national teachers' union, is stepping down this summer, and UFT President Randi Weingarten is the heir apparent to the job; elections will be...

When $100,000 is yanked out of your school's budget, every dime that your PTA has raised is more precious than ever. That dime is yours to spend, and no one can take it out of your bank account in...

Just a reminder that tonight's the last public hearing about the DOE's proposed changes to pre-K and kindergarten admission policy. 6:30 p.m., Dewitt Clinton HS, the Bronx. For a refresher on what...

Photo by Philissa Cramer/Insideschools Everyone who's anyone in the fight to improve the city's schools stood on the steps of City Hall this afternoon for a press conference announcing the...

Great news!! We got our specialized and non-specialized school results back yesterday, and I got into my first-choice specialized high school... BRONX SCIENCE!!! I'm really excited and really...

Let's keep our fingers crossed for Izzy -- today's the day that most kids who applied to a specialized high school find out whether they've been admitted. (It could take a few days for kids to get...

Since October, we've visited more than half a dozen middle schools, compared notes and listed our top five choices in order. We care a lot about education and choice in our family, so we laid out a...

I've been a bit depressed lately. After learning about the new budget cuts, I had to begin talking about how to work around the cuts with my school's School Leadership Team. It's a scary situation...

Chancellor Klein understands that principals are furious about the mid-year budget cuts. That's why he emailed them on Monday to tell them how much he wants to help them (through their Integrated...

We just added a dozen more principal responses to our compendium of what schools are cutting as a result of last week's budget cuts. The most frequent things to go: After school programs, extra...

The Times reports today from India: This year, admissions for prekindergarten seats in Delhi begin for children as young as 3, and what school they get into now is widely felt to make or break...

Charter schools have never sounded like a better idea than they do now — at the same time that regular public schools are being forced to cut essential services like tutoring and counseling, a...

If the DOE is using state test scores to judge students, schools, teachers, and principals, how can it stomach forcing schools to cut extra tutoring (among other programs and services) just six...

Today is Super Tuesday — and in an unusual circumstance, New Yorkers will cast their ballots in a presidential race that has not yet been whittled to two opponents. Vote early or late, or on your...

On Friday, Insideschools asked principals to tell us how they're dealing with the mid-year budget cuts, and our record of their responses is up now. We'll be continuing to add to this as we...

Robin Aronow, a consultant who advises parents on school choice, wrote with additional information from last week's Manhattan pre-K proposal hearing. It sounds like most of the issues raised there...