Many individuals are working to improve college access for low-income, first generation students. Yet the system as a whole still drags its feet, Tough says.

Last month, we reported that the Department of Education’s adult ed office recently urged principals to refer low-level students to free classes at the New York Public Library. Today, the New York Times writes that the city’s libraries don’t have the resources to serve the growing number of adults seeking English

Since announcing his dramatic pre-K expansion, Mayor Bill de Blasio has repeatedly promised “high quality, full-day” seats. But a new policy brief suggests that language might sell the programs short. The current vocabulary used to describe pre-K—“full-day” or “half-day”—implies that full-day programs offer double

Chancellor Carmen Fariña said the administration is figuring out the right ways to evaluate its Pre-K programs.

Teenage inmates on Rikers Island face extreme violence in and around the jail's schools, according to a new Justice Department report.

Since de Blasio’s co-location battle with Success Academy last spring, the mayor has backed off on his criticism of charter schools. But the City Council's education committee is pushing ahead in its opposition to the sector.

Charter schools in private space have new hope that they can receive publicly-funded facilities from the city after taking a second look at a new law.

City Council unanimously passed a bill on Thursday that will help schools install door alarms to increase student safety, but exactly how many schools will get the alarms won't be known until next summer. Under Avonte’s Law, the Department of Education and the Police Department must determine which schools should get

An all-boys school, a school that offers the International Baccalaureate diploma, and a Staten Island high school for students at risk of dropping out are among 11 prospective New York City charter schools that the State Education Department invited this month to submit full applications to open in 2015.

A recent bulletin from the Office of Adult and Continuing Education urged principals to refer low-level students to free classes at the library. The department says referrals benefit students, but longtime adult educators are worried that the department is shortchanging the city's neediest adult learners.