Forum: Local School News (NY)

From DNAinfo.com by Amy Zimmer and Colby Hamilton: John Yanno, a high school teacher with 13 years of classroom experience, knows how to create a...

From N.Y. Daily News by Erica Pearson: Bronx teen Pawanpreet Singh wears a turban in keeping with his Sikh faith — and has been tormented about it...

From NY Daily News by Juan Gonzalez: Success Academy, the charter school chain that boasts sky-high student scores on annual state tests, has for...

From Schoolbook by Yasmeen Khan:Three years after the city made it harder for teachers to get tenure, just over half the number of teachers who were...

From N.Y. Daily News by Erin Durkin and Ben Chapman: To close the gender gap in city science classrooms, City Council Speaker and mayoral hopeful...

From Schoolbook by Patricia Willens:Test scores for New York City students plummeted this year, with 26.4 percent of third through eighth graders...

From WSJ.com by Lisa Fleisher: Now that New York state's elementary- and middle-school students have received sobering new test scores showing few...

From WSJ.com by Lisa Fleisher:The fundraising arm of the New York City public-school system brought in a record $47 million in pledges in the past...

From SchoolBook by Beth Fertig: New York City principals should get the results from their students’ Regents exams this week, and many are...

From NY1.com by Lindsey Christ: When Beckett was four, turning five in late October, his parents worried he wasn't ready for kindergarten. "The...

From NY1.com by Lindsey Christ: For months, United Federation of Teachers President Michael Mulgrew has been able to cite the exact number of days...

From SchoolBook by Beth Fertig: Principal Brian Rosenbloom was furious. Hours before Friday’s graduation ceremony for Chelsea Career and Technical...

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 Amy Zimmer: Aicha Zamcaligre read the letter from her son’s South Bronx school about the gifted and talented exam, but since she...

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