Education Department officials are hoping that programs like one at Brooklyn International can serve as a model to help the city creatively address a historic teacher hiring challenge.

City officials also promised to help stabilize Head Start providers facing funding threats from the Trump administration.

The abrupt removal of Superintendent Brendan Mims angered community members who said he’s pushed the district forward academically.

Out of the city’s roughly 1,600 schools, a whopping 80% have been identified to have asbestos and are required by federal law to be inspected every three years.

The rally on Thursday was the culmination of a project in 10th-grade English classes at Leaders High School in Bensonhurst, Brooklyn.

The letter from New York officials represents some of the earliest and most forceful pushback to the Trump administration’s threat to state education agencies over DEI efforts.

New York City is aiming to have a ‘family connector’ in each of the city’s 1,600 public schools, helping parents access city resources such as housing and food support.

The council asked for nearly $300 million more for early childhood education, which has emerged as a major sticking point in recent budget negotiations.

The Education Department expects to hire between 7,000 and 9,000 new educators.

New York City needs between $823 and $907 million in additional state funding in order to avoid kicking families out of the voucher program, according to one analysis.