- NYC school board reluctantly approves $1.65M Oracle contract extension after earlier defeat
NYC’s school board approved a $1.65 million Oracle contract after failing to pass it in August, though some members remain skeptical of the software company.
- Franklin Square School District joins League of Innovative Schools
- NYC math teacher who helped develop Illustrative Mathematics makes the case for its open-ended approach
Students work in an Algebra I class at Energy Tech High School on Oct. 31, 2023 in Long Island City, Queens.
- Parents predicted problems after NYC overhauled after-school contracts. They were right.
New York City families rallied on the steps of City Hall with council members on June 15. Parents had concerns about losing their programs; now many say their fears came true.
- After Nikole Hannah-Jones’ essay, Mamdani says NYC schools need ‘urgent’ change but offers few specifics
Mayor Zohran Mamdani called Nikole Hannah-Jones’ essay “devastating” and promised a plan, but he declined to commit to specific integration policies.
- Opinion: Present Concerns & Future Worries: Parents Weigh In on NYC School Technology Ban
New York City students returned to public school in September facing a one-year moratorium on using generative artificial intelligence, including chatbots and tutors, in grades 2K through 8, as well as restrictions on...
- Mamdani names Alan Ong new chair of NYC school board
New York City's Panel for Educational Policy on Nov. 19, 2025. Alan Ong, the panel's new chair, is seated fourth from left.
- Opinion: Parents Should Not Feel Guilty About Choosing a Good School
If you haven’t already, I suggest you read Nikole Hannah-Jones’ long New York Times essay looking back on her school choice decisions in NYC. Hannah-Jones chose a school for her daughter in significant part because of...
- Child Sex Abuse Victims Take Years to Report. States Now Give Them That Time
On August 14, 2019, a long-anticipated lookback window opened in New York state, allowing adult survivors of childhood sexual assault a second chance at justice. Just after midnight, Kathryn Robb, who said she was...
- NYC students may soon only need passing grades — not Regents exams — to graduate
New York’s Regents exams are set to be phased out as a graduation requirement starting next year. The state’s new assessment system could take years to develop. In the meantime, city students would need to pass their...
- New York Schools Named in Nearly 2,000 Child Sex Abuse Claims
This article was published in partnership with Mother Jones. Warning: This story contains graphic descriptions of child sexual abuse. Going to high school in Dutchess County, New York, in the 1960s, there was no late...
- 5 Things to Know From Our Investigation Into Decades of Sex Abuse in NY Schools
New York’s Child Victims Act is often referred to as a window — or a lookback window — because it took an aperture once shut to adult survivors of childhood sexual abuse and flung it open again. The law created an...
- How The 74 Revealed Decades of Alleged Sexual Abuse in New York Schools
Early in my career as a high school English teacher, I was chaperoning a field trip to Six Flags when a 9th-grade student asked me to hold her phone while she rode the roller coaster. After she walked away, her phone...
- High school journalism expands in NYC, backed by new city funding
Youth Journalism Coalition Director CJ Sánchez speaks on the steps of City Hall on Tuesday, Sept. 22, 2026, flanked by Council members Rita Joseph and Eric Dinowitz and students from across the city.
- Landlines, Magazines, Puzzles: NYC Suburb Brings Back Screen-Free Childhoods
When Croton-on-Hudson’s youngest students returned to school earlier this month, a familiar — and increasingly controversial — classroom tool was missing from their desks: iPads. A new districtwide policy prohibits the...
- From 3,000 students to about 90: Inside the decades-long failure to fix or close NYC’s smallest high school
The Murry Bergtraum High School Campus in lower Manhattan, once home to a single school with roughly 3,000 students, now houses four schools. Its original school has shrunk to around 90 students.
- Offshore wind job training built for a boom is facing down a bust
BRENTWOOD, N.Y. — A former Navy sailor and union laborer from Local 1298 on Long Island, William “Billy” Bishop jumped at the chance to work on the water again when he learned two years ago about job opportunities on...
- Opinion: While NYC and LA Schools Draw a Line on AI, Alabama Has a Plan
Two of the nation’s largest school systems are drawing new boundaries around artificial intelligence. New York City Public Schools has placed a moratorium on student-facing generative AI through eighth grade, while...
- Meet the 23-Year-Old Bed-Stuy Native Who Won a $200,000 David Prize for Teaching Kids Money Skills
When Aaliyah Duah was 17, she realized one of the major differences between an underserved community like Brooklyn’s Bedford-Stuyvesant, where she grew up, and more affluent ones was early access to information on how...
- 1 in 3 NYC students chronically absent as rates remain stubbornly high
Students at a Brooklyn school celebrate the first day on Sept. 10. NYC is hoping to make a dent in the chronic absenteeism rate, which was 33.5% in the 2025-26 school year.
- The Night Shift: Inside One Provider’s After-Hours Childcare Program
New York At 10:30 p.m. on a Monday in the Bronx, it’s bedtime for many children. But at Juana Grisel Peña’s apartment, 2-year-old Brandon is just arriving. Peña, who goes by Grisel, greets him with a hug as he joins...
- Opinion: New York Must Not Abandon Regents Exams Without a Better Measure of Readiness
The Board of Regents took another dangerous step this week: one that could leave New York’s 1 million high school and middle school students less prepared for college and the workforce. The discussion on NY Inspires,...
- Teachers unions press New York Gov. Kathy Hochul to reject federal school choice program
Randi Weingarten, president of the American Federation of Teachers, urged Gov. Kathy Hochul not to opt New York into a federal tax-credit scholarship program at the Manhattan headquarters of the United Federation of...
- I’ve visited school districts from Tennessee to NYC. American kids are not ready for the AI revolution.
Children aren’t hiding AI from us. Instead, we are hiding from AI, which is costing us the one conversation that would help them.
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- NYC schools restrict student YouTube access as tech backlash grows
NYC is restricting student access to YouTube on school devices, adding to new limits on screen time and generative AI in public schools.
- Meet the 23-year-old Bed-Stuy native who won a $200,000 David Prize for teaching kids money skills
Financial literacy instructor Aaliyah Duah, who works with more than 30 New York City schools, is one of five winners of this year's David Prize, winning $200,000, no-strings attached.
- The AI education paradox: Preparing students for an AI workforce
Two distinct approaches have emerged: the UAE has integrated systematic K-12 AI education, while New York City Public Schools impose significant restrictions, especially for younger students.
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- ‘In a purgatory period’: NY takes next step in graduation overhaul, leaving unanswered questions
New York is moving ahead with new high school graduation requirements, but key questions remain about how current students will be assessed without Regents exams.
- As school begins, Queens families keep watch for ICE
Juan, Margarita’s 18-year-old son, leaves to take his siblings to their first day of school.
- Parents worry about ed tech. Most still see a place for it, polls suggest.
New York City parents and advocates rally against AI in schools on Thursday, April 16, 2026. While many parents have joined the movement against technology in education, polling indicates that the majority of parents...
- New York and Los Angeles Ban Student-Facing AI (For Now). Should Other Schools Follow?
The bans, coupled with a new APA report, signal a shift from rapid AI adoption toward more deliberate evaluation.
- Tears, Laughs & Hugs: Inside NYC’s New Free 2-K Program
- Amid Financial Scramble, NYC’s 2-K Opens to Smiles from Toddlers and Parents
Two-year-old Mia was all smiles for her first week of school — a big moment for the eager child, but also for New York City, as Mayor Zohran Mamdani launched the inaugural year of free 2-K for 2,000 children. Wearing...
- Cost savings, first-day jitters, payment delays: NYC launches 2-K for 2,000 toddlers
Students at the Friends of Crown Heights childcare center in East Flatbush, Brooklyn, play with toys on the first day of 2-K.
- NYC back to school: New AI and screen time limits give parents relief
Children stream into P.S. 107 in Park Slope, Brooklyn, for the first day of school. The city's new policy limits student-facing AI for elementary and middle schoolers and bans individual devices before third grade.
- 25 years later, teaching 9/11: How NYC educators navigate the anniversary
Flowers and a note on victims' names at the National September 11 Memorial & Museum in New York on Sept. 8, 2026. Chalkbeat talked with three teachers about their memories of 9/11 and how they teach about what happened.
- As NYC schools open, 5 big questions about Mamdani’s education agenda
As NYC schools open, Mayor Zohran Mamdani faces major questions about falling enrollment, special education, school technology, and the shape of his broader K-12 agenda.
- A Generation Later, 9/11 Is Harder to Teach as Lived Memory Fades
Sari Beth Rosenberg was supposed to begin student teaching in New York City on Sept. 11, 2001. At 26 years old, she was scheduled to observe a U.S. history class at LaGuardia High School. She didn’t get the chance....
- NYC student OMNY cards expired early, leaving families confused and paying out-of-pocket
Student OMNY cards from the 2025-26 school year are supposed to work 365 days a year. But families say they stopped working Aug. 31.
- 2-K, contract delays, pay parity: Mamdani taps new early childhood education head at critical moment
Mayor Zohran Mamdani, pictured with a Brooklyn preschool student in January, named Erica Pillips deputy chancellor for the Education Department's Division of Early Childhood Education.
