Education
News
New York City teachers: Why we stayed and why we left
With a new school year just around the corner, these New Yorkers who’ve been at the forefront of all this share what’s next.
Nonprofits
News
Nonprofit offers free job-readiness services to Ulster County teens
Go Beyond Greatness offers a series of workshops geared towards teens to give them crucial skills not taught in classrooms.
Nonprofits
News
NYC Community School District 1 to offer mental health services to all district families this fall
University Settlement’s Families Thriving program will partner with Trinity Church Wall Street in a pilot expansion of comprehensive mental health services.
Education
News
Expanding student outreach after COVID-19
Job Corps, which offers free educational and vocational programs to economically disadvantaged youth, looks to reach more Latino students after the onset of the coronavirus pandemic.
Opinion
Opinion
Closing the tech gap in NYC starts with expanding K-12 computing education
With a boom in tech jobs during the coronavirus pandemic, preparing New Yorkers from underrepresented communities for these positions should be a top priority for the city.
Education
News
New York City Council ramps up pressure on mayor to restore school budget funding
Even though they also approved the cuts, the council held a hearing on Monday highlighting the impacts on teachers and students.
Education
News
New York City’s plan for integrating asylum-seeker children into public schools
Potentially thousands of these new students could be entering schools in the fall, and the nation’s largest school system will be developing a curriculum to meet their needs
Nonprofits
News
Nonprofit's college savings program to benefit NYC kindergartners
Through a partnership with NYC Kids RISE, the Department of Education is rolling out 529 college savings accounts for 97% of all kindergartners when students return to school this fall.
Opinion
Opinion
Revamping how we teach reading must be fundamental to NYC DOE reforms
Mayor Eric Adams and Schools Chancellor David Banks took promising first steps by proposing a shift to an evidence-based reading curriculum and comprehensive dyslexia screenings.
Nonprofits
News
What’s behind declining enrollment in NYC schools?
A new Manhattan Institute report argues for greater acknowledgment of parents’ autonomy in the governance of district-run schools
Education
News
Can NYC’s summer school program help make up for a pandemic year?
High demand and a rushed rollout have left some teachers and organizations feeling unprepared for an influx of kids to summer programming.
Personality
Andrew Cuomo
School officials want an extra $1.6 billion. Cuomo offered $769 million.
New York's state budget is due soon, and funding for education remains unresolved. City & State spoke with state Education Commissioner MaryEllen Elia about the funding levels she would like to see for New York's schools and the governor's less generous proposal, as well as as what her department is doing to protect the rights of transgender students.
Opinion
Andrew Cuomo
New York keeps shortchanging poor students
New York's Foundation Aid formula has major shortcomings, which include using a decade of inconsistent local share calculations, arbitrary floors and ceilings, old demographic data and guaranteed increases regardless of changing demographics or enrollment. As a result of these distortions, excess aid is sent to wealthy districts and poorer districts get shortchanged. The state cannot afford to fully fund the warped formula, yet advocates are calling for a $2 billion increase in Foundation Aid in the coming year.
News
Simcha Felder
Armed school officers could turn the state Senate blue
The fate of state Sen. Simcha Felder's bill arming guards in schools could impact which party he caucuses with.
Opinion
Alliance for Quality Education
To combat racism, fund needy schools
State Foundation Aid is underfunded.
Opinion
gun control
Why armed guards would be bad for schools
Over-policing schools has not worked in NY.
Opinion
New York
Why the attacks against my Black History Education bill are racist
Fringe groups like the Working Families Party, Make NY True Blue and Indivisible feel intellectually superior to everyone and believe they determine who is a Democrat and who is not, and define who is black enough and what it means to be a public servant in communities of color. With this disconnected view, activists shamefully slammed my effort to pass the Black History Education bill during Black History Month.
Opinion
New York
NYC’s new schools chancellor should make college success matter
The most important item on the next New York City school's chancellor’s to-do list is hardly being discussed: preparing vastly more students to succeed in college, argue Tom Hilliard and Matt A.V. Chaban of the Center for an Urban Future.
News
New York
Other political figures who backed out of appointments
Alberto Carvalho isn’t the first politician to withdraw from a position – although in his case, it wasn’t driven by scandal or controversy but because he was beloved by local school board members and students who wanted him to stay. Here are some other national figures who have made waves by declining a position after being nominated.
Opinion
Kathy Hochul
It’s time for menstrual equity
The state Legislature should require free menstrual products in public schools, argue Lt. Gov. Kathy Hochul and Jennifer Weiss-Wolf.
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