News Briefs
The legacy of Robert F. Kennedy has inspired an unusual alliance over school curriculum in New York that joins the state teachers’ union, a private foundation, the state education department, and the governor.
November 17, 2008
After years of planning, education officials in New York City announced last week the formation of an independent, nonpartisan research center that will study the city’s schools.
November 4, 2008
A federal district judge has ruled that the New York City school system’s prohibition against teachers’ wearing of campaign buttons in school is likely constitutional.
October 28, 2008
October 28, 2008
A new report says that more than 90,000 elementary students in New York City missed at least one month of classes during the last school year.
October 28, 2008
A high school in Massena, N.Y., has won approval to offer students a voluntary yoga program—as long as it’s not called yoga.
October 20, 2008
FTA wants agencies to get out of the business of creating routes designed exclusively to take students to and from school.
July 15, 2008
Teachers at disadvantaged schools in two of the nation’s largest urban districts are getting more qualified, which is helping to improve student test scores.
July 14, 2008
Better-qualified educators are being hired to teach in the district’s poorer schools where student test scores are also on the rise, a new study finds.
June 16, 2008
Urban Advantage goes further than most museum-to-school outreach efforts in connecting students’ field trips to science centers directly back to the school curriculum.
June 6, 2008
The single-minded focus on standardized tests has dictated an impoverished curriculum and pushed out other evidence of learning, writes Randi Weingarten.
May 13, 2008
New York City's hiring policy has created a small but financially significant problem among a slew of teachers who have been unable to find work but remain on the payroll, according to a report.
May 5, 2008
Restoration of funding will support effort to reduce a backlog of hundreds of cases involving teachers and administrators accused of having sex with students.
April 11, 2008, AP
New York Gov. David A. Paterson takes charge at one of the most pivotal times of the year for public schools: state budget negotiations.
March 17, 2008
Eliot Spitzer's resignation threatens to complicate matters for education policymakers at one of the most pivotal times of the year for public schools: state budget negotiations.
March 12, 2008
Updated: January 17, 2008
