City Council members are preparing to grill education officials about screen dependency in city schools, but they’re missing the real problem: New York has no mechanism to actually police what…
A 17-year-old student was stabbed while heading to class in the Bronx, a incident that underscores a persistent blind spot in New York City’s school safety infrastructure. According to Gothamist,…
The federal World Trade Center Health Program is actively searching for people who were near Ground Zero during or after the September 11 attacks and have since developed illnesses, according…
The Department of Education under a new mayor confronts five concrete problems that will define whether the system can actually improve by spring. According to The City, Mayor Mamdani’s administration…
New York’s refusal to grant religious or philosophical exemptions to school vaccine requirements stands as a rare bulwark against the immunization erosion spreading across the country, but the policy’s durability…
Two apartments on the same block can zone into completely different elementary schools, and the line drawn between them isn’t always where families assume it is. NYC’s school zoning system…
NYC offers free, full-day 3-K and Pre-K seats to tens of thousands of families every year, but the enrollment system that assigns those seats confuses even parents who’ve been through…
Eight of New York City’s most competitive public high schools admit students almost entirely on the basis of a single three-hour test, and most families don’t learn how the scoring…
