Vulnerable populations
Black or Latino students represented 51% of the top students in each school’s graduating class last year. But they made up just 36% of students who qualify for direct admission to SUNY.
Schools issued 27,724 suspensions during the 2023-24 school year, a 2.4% decline year over year. But superintendent suspensions, which last six days or longer, ticked up about 1%.
The Panel for Educational Policy was slated to vote on a proposed revision to a 2009 regulation concerning student privacy, but members want the public to weigh in.
Roughly one in eight students in New York City’s public school system were living in temporary housing last school year, according to Advocates for Children.
Four years after New York City overhauled its summer program to blend academics and recreation, lawmakers want to know if it’s working.
Some counties have very low rates, and all that's needed in those unvaccinated pockets is a spark — an infected person traveling — to spread measles like wildfire.
Higher-poverty schools see more chronic absenteeism. They are taking a closer look at students’ whole environments to find solutions to the issue.
Titled “Speaking Up! Confronting Hate Speech,” the exhibit opened on Wednesday, and follows a partnership between the city’s Education Department and the Museum of Jewish Heritage.
New report from Department of Youth and Community Development shows hundreds of young people often can’t find a shelter bed.
The effort to bring Naloxone, which can reverse the effects of an opioid overdose, into city schools is part of a larger push to make the reversal agent as widely available as possible in the city.
While there has been a growing awareness of the school achievement crisis among boys, girls’ struggles at school can be less obvious – and more likely to go unaddressed.
New York City is pledging $2 million to keep some programs open for more hours as part of an effort to reduce youth violence during the summer months.
Brooklyn Frontiers High School recently enrolled eight Guinean immigrants, with help from the nonprofit InsideSchools to improve the enrollment process for older immigrant students.
The students had all recently failed the English Language Arts Regents exam, according to families and staff.
Schools are supposed to give parents of students in temporary housing free MetroCards each month. But problems with distributing them are leading to absences and fare evasion tickets.
Young adults at Rikers are entitled to attend the Education Department’s East River Academy and work towards a high school diploma or GED.
The staffers play a critical role on the front lines of two colliding crises: the exploding number of students living in homeless shelters, and elevated rates of chronic absenteeism in the wake of the pandemic.
P.S. Weekly talks with students and educators about the challenges migrant students are facing.
Seven Edward A. Reynolds West Side High School teachers and a student who spoke to Chalkbeat said the move to the new space has worsened their school experience in almost every way.
Federal law that protects the educational rights of homeless children and youth under 21 says young adults should be enrolled in school immediately, but the city is not meeting this requirement, advocates say.