Articles About Schools
Children to education officials: No more high-stakes testing
City Comptroller John Liu joins protest at Tweed against state bureaucrats; says teachers should create their own quizzes ⧸ Full Story
Parents to schools chancellor: Kids can’t take tests
Today's tough new Common Core exams spark a boycott by 'anxious' children ⧸ Full Story
Breaking up big busing
The fate of giant Atlantic Express signals the future of school transportation: small, cheap nonunion companies ⧸ Full Story
City resists air testing for schools with known PCB leaks
Damaged lighting fixtures have been removed, but School Construction Authority resists EPA urging for air studies ⧸ Full Story
City Council braces to restore cut child care funding — again
Last year, the mayor and members made an 11th-hour deal to save funding to serve thousands of preschoolers. Is a rescue possible this time around? ⧸ Full Story
Queens schools set for shuttering get squeezed instead
Kept open by court order in face of planned shutdown, Flushing and Newtown high schools will have new neighbors inside already-crowded buildings if proposed co-location is approved ⧸ Full Story
De Blasio: Tax wealthy to fund pre-K, after-school programs
Public Advocate turned mayoral candidate pledges to save and expand popular kids' care slated for budget cuts ⧸ Full Story
Why are school bus drivers on strike?
What parents need to know ⧸ Full Story
Minus desks, internet and phones, Coney Island school reopens
P.S. 288 returns two months after suffering major Sandy damage ⧸ Full Story
CUNY profs call for halt to curriculum redo
Faculty Senate rebuffs administration's Pathways plan to align community college and four-year-school courses ⧸ Full Story
Party switch puts Brooklyn senator in line to aid religious schools
Newly elected Democrat Simcha Felder, a supporter of taxpayer-funded vouchers for private education, aligns with a Republican party friendly to the cause ⧸ Full Story
The child care casino
Poor parents desperate to get a slot in city's new EarlyLearn program do what it takes to hit the right income numbers ⧸ Full Story
School buses swamped in coastal parking lots
Companies ready drenched fleets for Monday's return of 600,000 schoolchildren ⧸ Full Story
Feds join lawsuit seeking Medicaid millions back from city schools
U.S. Attorney Loretta Lynch says city Department of Education billed for Medicaid services children never received ⧸ Full Story
How could the Supreme Court affirmative action case affect New York colleges?
Oral arguments could mark the beginning of the end for race-based admissions decisions at institutions of higher education – including New York’s ⧸ Full Story
Community college course cutbacks spark faculty rebellion
'Pathways' curriculum forces schools to shorten English composition courses ⧸ Full Story
Child care providers make a last stand for lost contracts
EarlyLearn shakeup prompts questions about decisions to eliminate longtime centers ⧸ Full Story
New data spotlights New Yorkers’ student-debt struggles
Career schools leave alumni with uncertain prospects for repaying government loans ⧸ Full Story
Sizing up student debt at for-profit colleges
How The New York World made sense of new federal data on student loan burdens ⧸ Full Story
What is Anniversary Day?
You might notice more schoolchildren running around today, thanks to this little-known holiday. Here's the story behind it. ⧸ Full Story