Education
Opinion
Opponents of diversifying specialized high schools ignore facts
Attacks on de Blasio’s plan to reform admissions are mostly bogus.
Education
Opinion
My journey shows why specialized high school admissions must change
Today, as a state legislator I find myself in an interesting position; I am often in the middle of key debates regarding the segregation of our city’s schools. And I wonder how it is we are still wrestling with the same divisive issues that dominated our country more than 60 years ago.
Education
Opinion
The way to diversify specialized high schools is to open more of them
Let’s end the zero-sum competition between ethnic groups in New York City's specialized high schools and create more opportunities for everyone.
New York City
Policy
A guide to the controversy around NYC’s specialized high schools
An explainer on New York City Mayor Bill de Blasio's proposed change to admissions for New York City's specialized high schools and why it has triggered strong opposition.
Criminal Justice
Politics
2018 Session Countdown
Election season is heating up across the state, but there's still work to be done in Albany.
New York State
Opinion
Proposed teacher evaluation reform won’t mean more student testing
The bill currently in Albany would de-emphasize standardized tests
Education
Opinion
Delinking student test scores and teacher evaluations would harm students
Delinking student test scores and teacher evaluations would make it harder to see which students and schools need more help.
Education
Opinion
Harold Levy, an educational Robin Hood who helped the city that raised him
An appreciation for the life of Harold Levy, a former New York City schools chancellor.
Education
Opinion
A 3-point plan to increase diversity in NYC’s specialized high schools
Black and Latino students are badly underrepresented at top schools, but new bills in Albany aim to change that.
Andrew Cuomo
Personality
School officials want an extra $1.6 billion. Cuomo offered $769 million.
New York's state budget is due soon, and funding for education remains unresolved. City & State spoke with state Education Commissioner MaryEllen Elia about the funding levels she would like to see for New York's schools and the governor's less generous proposal, as well as as what her department is doing to protect the rights of transgender students.
NYN Media
Nonprofits
School officials want an extra $1.6 billion. Cuomo offered $769 million.
New York's state budget is due soon, and funding for education remains unresolved. City & State spoke with state Education Commissioner MaryEllen Elia about the funding levels she would like to see for New York's schools and the governor's less generous proposal, as well as as what her department is doing to protect the rights of transgender students.
Bill de Blasio
Policy
UPK was a big success. 3K for All won't be so easy.
De Blasio’s universal pre-K program has been his biggest success. Expanding it to 3-year-olds won’t be so easy.
Andrew Cuomo
Opinion
New York keeps shortchanging poor students
New York's Foundation Aid formula has major shortcomings, which include using a decade of inconsistent local share calculations, arbitrary floors and ceilings, old demographic data and guaranteed increases regardless of changing demographics or enrollment. As a result of these distortions, excess aid is sent to wealthy districts and poorer districts get shortchanged. The state cannot afford to fully fund the warped formula, yet advocates are calling for a $2 billion increase in Foundation Aid in the coming year.
NYN Media
Nonprofits
New York keeps shortchanging poor students
New York's Foundation Aid formula has major shortcomings, which include using a decade of inconsistent local share calculations, arbitrary floors and ceilings, old demographic data and guaranteed increases regardless of changing demographics or enrollment. As a result of these distortions, excess aid is sent to wealthy districts and poorer districts get shortchanged. The state cannot afford to fully fund the warped formula, yet advocates are calling for a $2 billion increase in Foundation Aid in the coming year.
Politics
New York City
Armed school officers could turn the state Senate blue
The fate of state Sen. Simcha Felder's bill arming guards in schools could impact which party he caucuses with.
NYN Media
Nonprofits
Armed school officers could turn the state Senate blue
The fate of state Sen. Simcha Felder's bill arming guards in schools could impact which party he caucuses with.
NYN Media
Nonprofits