The theater production will run for one day only through a partnership between the New York Civil Liberties Union and the Brooklyn Academy of Music.
Hochul said smartphones should not be available to students during the school day, to help shield them from the potential harms of social media.
Preschool operators say the city policy limiting the shelter stays of migrant families to 60 days has had devastating effects on their families and programs.
This episode of P.S. Weekly looks at how NYC high schoolers have reacted to protests about the Israel-Hamas war and the student freedom of speech issues being raised.
Families at The Brooklyn School of Inquiry have won a lengthy fight to avoid using Houghton Mifflin Harcourt’s reading program. Will other schools follow?
Isaac Regnier, a Brooklyn seventh grader, is petitioning to make Dec. 23 a day off, arguing that attendance will be low.
After a December exercise failed to prevent a remote day debacle in February, the city’s Education Department hopes the drill will demonstrate the systems’ ability to handle the load.
Roughly 80% of teenagers using the program identify as Black, Latino, Asian-American or Native American, and almost 70% identified as female, according to the city data.
The $2.5 million school tours program at the Museum of Jewish Heritage will allow students to learn more about the history of the Holocaust.
This week’s episode of P.S. Weekly looks at teen mental health, following one family’s journey with therapy and looking at NYC’s new effort to expand free therapy to teens.
Some city and state lawmakers say laundry services are critical for schools, but installing them can come with challenges.
The students had all recently failed the English Language Arts Regents exam, according to families and staff.
This fourth grader protested school food cuts. So officials invited her class to NYC’s test kitchen.
Students at a Washington Heights elementary school were frustrated with Eric Adams’ school food cuts. But their advocacy had a bigger impact than bringing back their favorite chicken dish.
Mayor Eric Adams has insisted all families who want spots in the city’s preschool programs would receive them, despite budget cuts to early childhood education.
Council members questioned officials as the looming expiration of federal COVID relief money threatens to shave $808 million from the Education Department’s budget.
In P.S. Weekly’s food episode, fourth graders visit NYC schools’ test kitchen, high schoolers rate grilled cheese sandwiches, and students dish on having microwave access.
If restorative justice funding is cut, advocates worry schools will increasingly resort to suspensions instead of alternatives like peer mediation.
Under state law, schools must conduct at least four lockdown drills each year. Lawmakers and advocates say that’s “excessive and ineffective.”
Before the pandemic, at least 137 schools serving roughly 70,000 students did not have a school nurse, according to one estimate.
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Spinning up a virtual learning program would be optional, and the plan does not force principals to choose any specific method for achieving the new caps.
The protest was a sharp contrast to the congressional hearing earlier in the day that focused almost exclusively on the experiences of Jewish students and educators.
‘There have been unacceptable incidents of antisemitism in our schools,’ Banks told members of Congress. But he also defended the record of the nation’s largest school system.
This episode of P.S. Weekly is dedicated to inspiring educators as we celebrate Teacher Appreciation Week.
Chancellor David Banks is set to testify at a congressional hearing on antisemitism in K-12 schools, facing the committee that recently grilled the presidents of elite colleges.
New York City’s teachers union is ratcheting up the pressure on the Education Department to comply with the state class size law.
Students presented their ideas for dealing with the teen mental health crisis, bias toward immigrants, and rats at a youth version of the famous Aspen Ideas Festival.
The announcement set off alarm bells for school integration advocates, who worry it could roll back progress diversifying several high-demand schools.
Banks previews the message he plans to take to Congress for a hearing on responses to antisemitism in school.
As NYC students figure out college plans, many are scrutinizing how administrators respond to campus activism.
Mayor Eric Adams and top police officials continued to claim, with little evidence, that “outside agitators” were behind the encampments.
Listen as student reporters speak with Banks about New York City’s Hidden Voices curriculums, school integration efforts, and more.
A trip to the Arctic inspired Brooklyn Prospect High School’s Caitlyn Homol to create a unit exploring “the relationship between motivation, action, and climate attitudes.”
“It's a fundamentally wrong and unfair practice,” one student said, calling it “affirmative action for the wealthy.”
About 8% of New York City students opted out of the state’s reading test last year, roughly double the pre-pandemic rate.
More school buildings were impacted by Tropical Storm Ophelia than previously known — and the city comptroller faulted the city’s communication during the storm.
The smaller budget is largely the result of expiring federal relief dollars, and Adams’ proposal saves a slew of programs that were on the chopping block.
A Manhattan parent board’s nonbinding resolution to revisit school guidelines on transgender girls' participation in sports raised alarms among trans students and their allies.
El gobierno de Estados Unidos prometió una FAFSA más sencilla para los estudiantes que ingresan a la universidad, pero para muchas familias inmigrantes la solicitud de ayuda financiera ha sido todo lo contrario.
The new financial aid application was supposed to be ‘faster and easier.’ For me, it has been anything but.