Crammed classes, a dearth of supplies and severe program cuts are now the norm in the Philadelphia. The district earlier this year laid off nearly 4,000 school staff and closed 23 schools – 10 percent of the total – displacing about 10,000 students.

After being a revolving door for principals for years, IS 78 in Bergen Beach, Brooklyn has finally settled down under a new principal. Student scores have started to trend upward and safety is vastly improved. That’s why the news that the DOE wants...

The co-location the DOE had planned for their building — protested vehemently by the IS 2 school community on Staten Island at two meetings — has been canceled. “It was a misguided plan from the start,” UFT District 31 Representative Sean Rotkowitz...

The stable community at IS 96 is facing an unprecedented threat from the city’s plan to co-locate a Success Academy charter school in its building next fall. Under the co-location, Success Academy would take 27 out of IS 96’s 62 classrooms – almost...

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For years, researchers and educators have been debating the pros and cons of grade retention policies with respect to how holding back a student affects that student’s learning, behavior and motivation. New research in the American Journal of...

Working at the Cape Canaveral Air Force Station among rocket ships and spacecraft, Brian Bomser says he is “literally living my dream.” That dream blasted off for Brian as a 7th-grader at Louis Armstrong MS, when the opportunity to attend space camp...