Council’s $1 million investment in the 9/11 Memorial & Museum will fund free field trips for New York City students, with a focus on eighth graders, and expand educational programming NEW YORK — Ahead of the 25th…
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“I have pretty much gone back to the way I was teaching when I first started,” said one Brooklyn teacher who's been in the profession for 25 years.
The New York City Council is putting $1 million toward expanding student programming at the 9/11 Memorial & Museum, an investment that officials say will support field trips for up to 20,000 students as the city marks…
Mayor Zohran Mamdani announced Wednesday that the nation’s largest public school system will impose a one-year moratorium on student-facing generative artificial intelligence (AI) from 2-K through eighth grade, while…
School calendars, holidays and even the weather can all have an impact on housing market activity across the borough of Manhattan.
On September 2, 2026, NYC Schools Chancellor Kamar Samuels spoke at the 204th CityLaw Breakfast.
Our kids only get one opportunity at a good education, but without good health that opportunity is wasted.
In the News Where a Catholic School Closed, a Charter School Opens [NYT] Spend a Bookish Afternoon in Prospect Heights and Park Slope [NYT] This New Brooklyn Seafood Spot Is an Odd Fish [NYT] Nurse Killed in…
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A Manhattan Supreme Court judge has ruled that both former Mayor Eric Adams and current Mayor Zohran Mamdani broke the law by not releasing racial equity plans according to city charter-mandated deadlines.
Last Sunday, 87 Vanderbilt University students moved into their rooms at the Nashville university’s new campus in Chelsea, pioneers in the school’s plan to establish an outpost in New York City that will offer a…
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Schools are shifting away from full novels to excerpts to prep students for state exams and accommodate lower stamina for reading.
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In the News The Socialist, a Million-Dollar House, Unanswered Questions [NYT] Three Cyclists Die in One Week in Hit-and-Runs [NYT] NYC Had Its Rainiest August in at Least Five Years [NYP] Man Fires Wildly on Greenwood…
Just 48 of the city's 1,619 public schools participated in School Streets during the 2025-2026 school year.
Long Island may be New York’s strongest case that money matters in education — and also its strongest warning that,....
Mayor Zohran Mamdani’s administration sued the New York City Council on Wednesday over its newly enacted bill to pay paraprofessionals one-time $10,000 payments, saying it both runs afoul of a state law that restricts…
by Kirstyn Brendlen, Brooklyn Paper Two years after Visitation Academy closed its doors, the school and attached monastery are set to be sold to developers for $42.25 million in a deal locals say was kept secret until…
If you’re a K–12 educator in New York, we want to know how you feel about technology in the classroom.
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New York City high schoolers will get a shot at more than 2,000 free Broadway tickets under the latest City Hall lottery, though with just 2,100 tickets on offer, most aspiring theatergoers will have to settle for the…
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Jennifer Peña raced home from middle school on a Friday afternoon two weeks before Christmas 1999, trying to beat her 3:30 p.m.
Seventeen-year-old Sabrina Gao, a rising senior, and 15-year-old Benjamin Xie, a rising junior, at Stuyvesant High School have taken on a duty some of the grown-ups have shirked: advancing socioeconomic and racial…