NYC school leaders tight-lipped on contingency plans amid threats of federal funding cuts
The nation’s largest school district receives more than $1 billion from the U.S. Education Department that President Trump ...
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Principal revives NYC middle school with podcasting curriculum
Principal Uche Njoku said incorporating podcasting, graphic design and filmmaking into students' education has them "hooked." ...
NYC public schools boss says mammoth $41.2B budget ask still isn’t enough — wants ‘hundreds of millions’ more
The Department of Education’s mammoth $41.2 billion budget plan for next year is a whopping third of the entire city’s — but ...
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NYC schools get $2 billion from Washington. What’s at risk if Trump defunds the Education Dept.?
New York City parents and school leaders are fearful that President Donald Trump’s administration could cut into the roughly ...
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Top NYC schools officials warn Trump’s Education Department cuts could harm most vulnerable students
It's truthfully hard to know which of those funding streams is at greatest risk because it's very unclear what is happening,” ...
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11 New York middle schoolers sickened after taking THC gummies, a growing problem
A student at a New York middle school gave marijuana gummies to at least a dozen classmates this week, sending nearly all of them to the hospital, police and the school district said. The 13- and ...
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Middle school teacher facing charges of possessing 1,000 images, videos of child porn, including rape of toddler
A man who worked as a math teacher at a public middle school in Manhattan has been arrested and charged with two counts of ...
AWOL kids puts them at risk: NYC public school absenteeism is too high
Too many New York City public school kids are missing too much school and that’s a very big problem. So why, then, is hardly ...
Chancellor Melissa Aviles-Ramos has some nerve seeking yet more cash for NYC schools with a budget already exceeding $41B
Spending on the public schools now accounts for more than a third of New York City’s budget — yet the woman nominally in ...
When is spring break for NYC students? Public and Catholic schools have off on different dates
Spring breaks for Catholic and public schools mark the last time that both groups of students will have a long holiday recess ...
300K NYC public school students — nearly 35% — ‘chronically absent’ as grades plummet, spending surges
Chronic absenteeism shot up to 40.7% in the 2021-2022 school during the second year of the pandemic, fell to 36.2% in ...
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Greater Support for Charter Schools Offers a Path for New York To Address Devastating Covid ‘Learning Loss’
The Empire State ranks among the bottom 20 states in this decline, despite having the most expensive public schools in the ...