A New York City public school principal approved nearly 200 hours of overtime and secured tenure for her baby daddy while he was working under her at the same school in violation of city rules.

Floyd Bennett Field is somewhat remote and underused. A nonprofit has big plans for the site.

Critics said the changes, mostly in the South, moved the nation “back toward the Jim Crow era.” Justice Department officials said the decrees were outdated.

As New York City restricts generative AI for younger students, CUNY education experts consider how schools can protect learning while preparing students for an AI-filled world.

The exams have been used to measure students’ skills for three decades.

More than one-third of NYC public school students were chronically absent during the 2025-26 school year, according to the Mayor’s Management Report.

New York City Schools are set to deploy attendance cops to combat their ongoing chronic absenteeism epidemic.

Students don't return to the classroom until Sept. 10 thanks to a late Labor Day. It's left families across the city scrambling.

In New York, the “reinstate and compensate” movement treats mutual obligation as akin to tyranny.

A Queens superintendent is slapped with a $5,000 fine for co-owning a company that did more than $1.5 million in business with NYC schools since 2023.

The SHSAT is a wildly unfair method of evaluating students disguised as a merit-based system.

Black students received about 3% of offers to the city's eight specialized high schools.

An ex-Brooklyn school superintendent has raked in $224,000 as a consultant in NYC while working top jobs in Connecticut and New Jersey, where he faces accusations of fiscal malfeasance and fraud.

Charges of contract improprieties have put Kamar Samuels in danger of being New York City’s shortest serving schools chancellor since Cathie Black resigned after 95 days back in 2011.

A Mamdani spokesperson said the administration is focused on gathering community feedback before issuing sweeping new policy proposals.

The city’s "AC for All" initiative, launched in 2017, aimed to bring air conditioning to every public school classroom. But the policy doesn't require the city to verify whether the units are function...

Why so many days off?

Gov. Hochul’s decision for New York to join President Trump’s federal tax credit program for private school vouchers panders to the private school lobby at the expense of public schools and educationa...

Public school enrollment is down by 160,000 students across the school system since 2020.

Mamdani can make significant reforms to amplify parental voices using existing powers.

Mamdani can make significant reforms to amplify parental voices using existing powers.

At least 27 early childhood education centers across the city are vacant, NYC's deputy chancellor of the Division of Early Childhood Education said.

Parents at a Manhattan middle school on the chopping block allege NYC violated the law on use of federal funds.

NYC Chancellor Kamar Samuels chose a prestigious private institution over a public school for his son's early education.

As he prepares to retire from teaching, Professor David Bloomfield discusses the pressures and expectations facing the mayor as he leads the nation’s largest school system on “The Thought Project” pod...

Samuels appointed Danielle Giunta the first deputy chancellor of the city’s public schools.

It adds up: On top of the snow day and several professional development days keeping kids home from school, NYC’s shorter school day means kids in the five boroughs are in class less than national cou...

Podcast Episode · CUNY TV's One to One · 02/10/2026 · 28m

Labor unions and activist groups supporting Mayor Mamdani's political agenda to gather for all-day workshop in a Manhattan public high school near City Hall .

Sheryl McCarthy speaks with CUNY professor David Bloomfield about federal pressure on New York City schools, including the Trump administration’s investigation into policies protecting transgender stu...

When extreme weather hits, our schools get it wrong.  There’s a lot of winter left. Last Monday’s widely disparaged non-snow day for public school students was not Mayor Mamdani’s fault. Even…

Some teachers asked students to write a poem about the snow and leave school early to get artistic inspiration.

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New mayor, new priorities. From universal child care to a surprising reversal on mayor control, here’s what to watch as Mamdani pitches education plans in Albany.

On the campaign trail, Mamdani expressed interest in sharing more authority with students, parents and the adults who make schools run every day — principals, teachers and other school staff member…

The Democratic nominee is planning to share authority over schools with parents and bodies like the school system’s governing panel.