The truth is, we know very little about the teachers in the pool.

The pool has historically been made up of teachers who are more senior than average, and therefore more expensive.

The new high schools include 61 in the Bronx, 56 in Brooklyn, 28 in Manhattan, 28 in Queens and two in Staten Island.

Using the IBO’s estimate, on average each ATR teacher received a total of $116,258 in salary and fringe benefits for the past school year.

New York City’s English language learners are both under-enrolled in the city’s CTE programs and less likely to complete them, according to a new report.

Some principals say they’ll avoid any attempt to place teachers at their schools, even if that means obscuring open jobs from the city’s hiring systems.

New York state’s proposed rating system for reporting on how well schools serve specific “subgroups” sends the wrong message, some advocates say, by creating uneven standards for students of different races, ethnicities and backgrounds. Under the State Education Department’s draft plan under the Every Student

Growing up in Brooklyn, Jamel Burgess wasn’t sure why some people went to college and others never seemed to make it. Now, he’s well aware of the barriers that keep students from higher education, from the big — family strife — to the relatively small, like CUNY’s application fee. That knowledge has been hard won.

The city is projecting that for 2017, 16,577 students will be mandated to attend summer school, or 5.4 percent of all students.

It is Mayor Bill de Blasio's first multi-year deal since taking office in 2014.