Local officials who pushed for educational changes celebrated a victory in a competition for federal money.
State and city officials who pushed for educational changes celebrated a victory in a competition for federal money.
Angry parents protested a falloff in test scores at a meeting of a citywide education panel, prompting its members and the schools chancellor to walk out.
The results of 2010 tests presented a blow to one of Mayor Michael R. Bloomberg’s signature accomplishments.
The Girls Preparatory Charter School expanded into space that had been devoted to autistic children.
For the first time, New York City principals were told to take student improvement on standardized state tests into account wherever possible.
Union contracts require layoffs to be by seniority, especially burdening the city’s new, small schools and their typically young, recently hired staffs.
Chancellor Joel I. Klein said that he was reshuffling the top jobs at city’s Education Department headquarters and eliminating the division that oversees school curriculum and teacher training programs.
Eighth graders in New York City public schools must wait at least one more day before they can find out where they will attend high school.