Schools Chancellor Responds to Parent Concerns Around Safety and Segregation
Schools Chancellor Richard Carranza spent the week touring schools and meeting with educators, students, and parents in all five boroughs.At a pizzeria in Staten Island, a few parents raised concerns...
View ArticleChancellor Carranza Talked to Students About What Matters to Them
As the new schools chancellor continues his meet-and-greet across New York City, students and parents have started to bring the heat. Richard Carranza has referred to himself as the “new guy” since he...
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After #MeToo, A Teacher Tackles Gender Roles In Her Classroom
The #MeToo movement has wracked Hollywood, Capitol Hill, and Silicon Valley, but most of Laura Winnick’s students at the Urban Assembly Maker Academy hadn’t even heard of it. That's why she decided to...
View ArticleSchools Chancellor Implores City Students Not to Walk Out on Friday
In March, when students walked out of class to honor victims of the Parkland school shooting, city officials and school administrators stood alongside them. But Schools Chancellor Richard Carranza said...
View ArticleA Bronx High School Protests Its Closure
UPDATE: The Panel on Educational Policy voted in favor of closing Crotona Academy with a 7-5 vote. Their decision came early on Thursday morning following a song, a poem, and more than five hours of...
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Report: School Choice Makes NYC Schools More Segregated
A new study released Wednesday challenges the argument that public school segregation in New York City results exclusively from segregated housing patterns, pointing to school choice as another,...
View ArticleAmerica's Largest School Districts Try for Bold Reforms
With school protests simmering across the country, America's two largest school systems, Los Angeles and New York City, are charting new courses for the future.This week, the Los Angeles School Board...
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Black Stuyvesant Alumni Reflect On Dismal Representation At Their High School
Editor's Note: the following article was corrected to clarify the state law that established the single-test admissions rule for New York City's specialized high schools. When enacted in 1971, it...
View ArticleA Class Debates the Importance of Having Male Teachers
More than 40 percent of public school students in New York City are boys of color but very few of their teachers look like them. That discrepancy is one reason Aaron Harris is a teacher. As an...
View ArticleOutrage, Applause Greets de Blasio's Bid to Reform Elite High Schools
A proposal outlined by Mayor Bill de Blasio to increase racial diversity at the city’s specialized high schools has been met with both fierce outrage and waves of support.In his announcement Sunday, de...
View ArticleCity Council Demands School Metal Detector Data From NYPD
It's been over two years since the the New York City Council passed legislation requiring police officials to share the locations of metal detectors and random scanners in the city's public schools. To...
View ArticleAlbany Tables Bill to End Specialized High School Test
State legislators are postponing consideration of bill to replace a test-only admissions policy at the city's specialized high schools. The decision followed a swift response from alumni organizations...
View ArticleTeachers, Alumni Support HS Tutoring Program Changes
Two weeks after New York City Mayor Bill de Blasio proposed to change the single-test admissions process that controls eight of the city's specialized high schools, attention has shifted to one of the...
View ArticleRecord Absentee Votes Cast in the Mexican Election But Some in New York Feel...
Mexicans living abroad voted in their country’s presidential election in record numbers.Nearly 181,000 registered to cast votes in some of nearly 1,800 races. According to Yuri Beltrán of the Electoral...
View ArticleAnother Zuccotti Park-Style Encampment, This Time Over Immigration
For about a week, the square outside of the federal immigration court in lower Manhattan has become a makeshift headquarters for activists trying to help undocumented immigrants while protesting...
View ArticleAsian-American New Yorkers Rally in Opposition to Reform of Elite Specialized...
Mayor Bill de Blasio triggered an outcry from New York City's Asian-American community when he unveiled a proposal to change the admissions policy for the city's elite specialized high schools, which...
View ArticlePolicy Change for NYC's Specialized High Schools
Admission to New York City’s specialized high schools have always depended on single test, but all that may change as the de Blasio administration works to implement policy that would designate a...
View ArticleWho Finds Out About Summer Test Prep Can Depend on Race
Cecily Robinson teaches two different groups of students in two different academic settings.She teaches primarily black and Latino students she teaches at a charter school in the Bronx during the...
View ArticleSummer Test-Prep Programs Are the...[Insert Superlative]
It was easy to forget that school was out for the summer at a recent visit to JHS 292, a middle school in East New York. With multiple fans blowing warm air to cool off a warmer classroom, about two...
View ArticleA Bootcamp for a Big Break...into a Performing Arts High School
New York City is a haven for people looking to make in the arts – including actors, dancers, and musicians – and about 250 artistically ambitious rising eighth-graders are part of an audition boot camp...
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