Education

School buses pick up students in East Flatbush.

How Adams Insiders Scored a Traffic Technology Tryout for a Favored Company

March 6, 2025, 5:00 a.m.March 12, 2025, 2:10 p.m.

A top aide to ex-Deputy Mayor Phil Banks rolled into a high-paying job with BusPatrol after helping the firm get its cameras on board NYC school buses — and in line for a big contract.

Department of Education

NYC Schools Restore LGBTQ Videos Yanked by PBS Following Trump Executive Order

Feb. 19, 2025, 5:02 p.m.Feb. 19, 2025, 5:02 p.m.

The videos, made in partnership with NYC public schools, profiled key historical figures like Audre Lorde and Bayard Rustin.

Kathy Hochul is standing inside City Hall wearing a black blazer and black shirt while speaking at a podium that says city of yes.

Albany

School Phone Ban, Early College, AI Guardrails: Hochul’s 2025 Education Agenda

Jan. 14, 2025, 5:03 p.m.Jan. 14, 2025, 5:03 p.m.

Gov. Kathy Hochul will move to limit cellphone use in New York schools this year, she said during her annual State of the State address in Albany.

How to New York

How to Serve on Your Local School Council in NYC

Jan. 9, 2025, 8:28 p.m.Jan. 9, 2025, 8:30 p.m.

Applications open soon for Community Education Councils, or CECs, where parents weigh in on school zone boundaries, academics, school budgets and more.

Stuyvesant High School in Manhattan, Dec. 17, 2018.

Education

English Learners Rarely Get Into City’s Specialized High Schools. This Student Came Achingly Close.

Dec. 5, 2024, 4:56 p.m.Dec. 5, 2024, 4:57 p.m.

A change made to public schools’ Discovery program in an effort under former Mayor Bill de Blasio to boost the numbers of Black and Latino students at specialized high schools created an eligibility rule that may be excluding those very students.

Students and faculty enjoy a spring day at the Cornell Tech campus on Roosevelt Island.

Education

NYC’s Growing Higher Ed Sector Contributes $35 Billion a Year to City Economy, Study Finds

Nov. 25, 2024, 5:00 a.m.Nov. 25, 2024, 10:12 a.m.

But challenges for the city’s 100 higher ed institutions loom, with Republican-led cuts to federal funding on the horizon.

Education

CUNY Chancellor Boasts Enrollment Growth in ‘State of the University’ Address

Nov. 20, 2024, 5:12 p.m.Nov. 25, 2024, 11:11 a.m.

Félix Matos Rodríguez also continued to emphasize career development efforts. Meanwhile, the medical school is transitioning to be an independent CUNY college.