Forum: Local School News (NY)

From WSJ.com by Lisa Fleisher: New York City's new system for rating teachers could be dramatically tougher on educators than the previous one,...

From DNAinfo.com by Emily Frost: A group of 15 principals from across the city announced this week they will no longer be using results from a...

From N.Y. Times by Channing Joseph: The New York State education commissioner broke a long and acrimonious impasse on Saturday by imposing a new...

From DNAinfo.com by Amy Zimmer: The city is proposing to spend $24.8 billion on education for fiscal year 2014, an all-time high for the schools and...

From DNAinfo.com by Alan Neuheuser: Success Academy is aiming to open its first high school next year in a Murray Hill building that currently...

According to a friend, the teachers have been complaining about having headaches and respiratory problems for nearly a decade at the school, and six...

From DNAinfo.com by Victoria Bekiempis: Local parents and politicians are fighting back against a Department of Education proposal that would use an...

From DNAinfo.com by Irene Plagianos: The Department of Education's alternate plans for more than 100 children who remain on record wait-lists for...

From N.Y. Times by Javier C. Hernandez: Dennis M. Walcott, the New York City schools chancellor, lashed out at the Democratic candidates for mayor...

From N.Y. Times by Kyle Spencer: Weiling Zhang, a sophomore at the Léman Manhattan Preparatory School, yearned to communicate with more conviction...

From N.Y. Times by Javier C. Hernandez: Seeking to address pervasive racial disparities at the top echelons of New York City schools, Christine C....

From DNAinfo.com by Emily Frost: A new charter school that would serve local middle school students could be coming to the Upper West Side next...

From GothamSchools by Anika Anand: For thousands of sixth-graders at 20 city middle schools, the school day is about to get a lot longer. The...

From DNAinfo.com by Irene Plagianos and Mathew Katz: The Department of Education plans to move students from a small, beloved elementary school in...

From Insideschools by Anna Schneider: The Department of Education is forcing most of the city’s selective high schools to accept a certain...

From N.Y. Daily News by Juan Gonzalez: Construction crews worked feverishly last summer to renovate space for Success Academy Cobble Hill, a new...

From GothamSchools: If students post low scores on the sections of the state reading test administered today, it might be in part because many could...

From Schoolbook by Reema Khrais: State standardized tests for third through eighth graders start Tuesday, but not every student will be sitting down...

From N.Y. Times by Kyle Spencer: At Public School 10 on the edge of Park Slope, Brooklyn, parents begged the principal to postpone the lower school...