By next fall, the majority of students in New York high schools will not be required to pass the state’s Regents exams to earn a diploma.
Xaverian plans a new wing with classrooms, labs and a chapel, with construction starting this year and completion set for 2027.
Teens developed games, animations and social media campaigns to educate the public about the challenges of energy conservation.
Students and staff from Poly Prep Country Day School packed food and produce then dropped them off at One Love Community Fridge.
Before Kamar Samuels took the helm of the nation’s largest school system, he set in motion plans to shutter three small middle school programs.
St. Patrick’s Catholic Academy, 401 97th St., hosted its 10th Annual STEM Olympics on Thursday, Jan. 29.
James Madison High School, the educational institution with an accomplished list of well-known alumni, celebrated its centennial on Oct. 24.
Mayor Bill de Blasio, in a shaky voice, announced late Sunday afternoon that school in New York City is suspended immediately because of the novel coronavirus outbreak. “This is a
The government alone is not going to solve the city’s novel coronavirus problems, New York City Mayor Bill de Blasio said at a press conference on Wednesday. Rather, it’s the
The City Council has authorized the creation of a task force to address racial and ethnic inequities in the city’s specialized high schools, including by reexamining the controversial Specialized High
Faced with declining enrollments, two Bay Ridge Catholic schools have decided to stave off elimination by merging and creating a new academy that will focus on science, engineering and the
Pacific Park’s new middle school will have more students than initially planned, adding to Prospect Heights residents’ worries about their kids safety as they go to and from school. The
A group of teens are taking to the floor of City Hall — literally — to call for the desegregation of New York City public high schools. At 1 p.m.
Subscribe to Brooklyn this Week: iTunes Spotify Stitcher Black and Latino students make up the majority of the city’s public schools, yet are the minority at the eight specialized high
The lunchtime crowd in DUMBO took turns cranking two giant, solar-powered flipbooks installed at DUMBO’s Pearl Street Triangle on Thursday. As the pages flipped, the individual drawings merged into an
By virtually all accounts, the introduction of the Common Core didn’t go as planned.
The Education Equity Campaign wants to keep the SHSAT, advocating instead for broader access to test prep and gifted programs.
While advocates have called attention to lengthy punishments, what happens inside the centers themselves is largely shielded from the public.
“Our schools are stronger when they reflect the diversity of our city.”
Anamul Haque was 21 years old in 2016 when he found his little brother Ziaul dead in the bathroom of the family’s Flatbush home. Ziaul had committed suicide Ziaul was
The program is on pace to cost taxpayers $22.3 million over the last three years.
A Quinnipiac University poll shows broad support for overhauling admissions for prestigious but stubbornly segregated NYC schools.
Brooklyn students joined worldwide strikes on Friday to protest inaction on climate change. Some skipped school to rally on the steps at Brooklyn Borough Hall, where adults passing by mostly
“Meatless Mondays” will come to cafeterias citywide this year after a successful pilot program in Brooklyn, Mayor Bill de Blasio announced on March 11. After joining students from PS 130
The Hour of Code has come to Brooklyn again. This movement aims to introduce the concept of coding to students of all ages, all over the world. At William McKinley
I’m just like my countryI’m young, scrappy and hungryAnd I’m not throwing away my shot! The mega-hit Broadway play “Hamilton” shines a spotlight on the American dream, where a scrappy,
Thomas Greene is launching his Plan B. Unfazed by the failure of his dream to have the city build a marine science lab on a Revolutionary-era wharf at the foot
JOHANNESBURG— South African artist Thokozani Mthiyane told dozens of children from a Brooklyn school to close their eyes and imagine “the worst scenario that you can.” Then he told his
Change is coming to Brooklyn’s District 15 schools. On Thursday at Park Slope’s M.S. 51, Mayor Bill de Blasio and Schools Chancellor Richard Carranza launched a plan to increase diversity
A 95-year-old water main in Bensonhurst ruptured on the night of Sept. 5, leaving dozens of local residents without water for several hours, according to city officials, who said the
They’re in a class all their own. This summer, NYU Tandon collaborated with Industry City and the Oath Foundation to host a three-week Computer Science for Cyber Security (CS4CS) program
When Ilana Kotliar received a prestigious honor at Cornell University, she decided to share the accolade with the high school chemistry teacher who had inspired her. Kotliar, who hails from
Trying to get Sunset Park to the head of the class, the non-profit organization LEEP (Latino Education Equity Partnership) is currently pushing to bring a dual language public charter school
At the ultra-Orthodox Jewish schools Pesach Eisen attended in Brooklyn, most of the day was spent studying religious texts with classes taught in Yiddish. One class at the end of
A survey of earnings paid to headmasters of the city’s priciest private schools shows that the head of a prestigious Brooklyn school earned the highest such amount in the city
You might notice an unusual number of radio-controlled vehicles or breadbox-sized robots scooting around MetroTech this summer. Do not be alarmed. For the next seven weeks, hundreds of high school