The reasons for enrollment declines are complex, and appear to include the lure of new school construction on one hand, and the high cost of living on the other.
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Asylum-Seeking Students Reshape Charter School in Queens
Staff jump in to provide education and many other essentials for an unexpected influx of some six dozen migrant youth.
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School Policing Questioned as Students Return to Classrooms Amid Pandemic Stress and Security Revamp
The restart of fully in-person public school classes in less than a month will bring the return of nearly a million students — along with more than 4,000 school safety agents. That’s reignited a raging debate over what role, if any, cops should have in classrooms, at a time when many children are especially vulnerable and […]
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Eric Adams Faces a Schooling on Major New York City Education Issues
Additional reporting by With Reema Amin, Pooja Salhotra and Amy Zimmer, Chalkbeat This story was originally published by Chalkbeat, a nonprofit news organization covering public education. Sign up for their newsletters here: ckbe.at/newsletters As the presumptive Democratic nominee, Eric Adams will go into November’s mayoral election heavily favored against Republican nominee Curtis Sliwa. If Adams […]
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Mayoral MATH: How Andrew Yang’s Money Helped Start Manhattan Charter School
After eight years of scorn from Mayor Bill de Blasio, charter schools could see a friendlier face in City Hall if early frontrunner Andrew Yang stays ahead of the crowded field of Democrats running for mayor. De Blasio has consistently foiled charter schools throughout his time in office, even leaving one high-profile charter school without […]
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Tens of Thousands of Child Care Slots De Blasio Promised to Working Parents Still Missing
More than 80,000 free child care slots promised to working parents with kids in hybrid-learning classes still haven’t materialized as the city scrambles to find spaces for its Learning Bridges program, records show. In July, Mayor Bill de Blasio touted the creation of 100,000 child care seats, with a maximum of 15 kids per group, […]
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What You Should Know About NYC’s Plan to Shutter Schools
This story was originally published by Chalkbeat, a nonprofit news organization covering public education. Sign up for their newsletters here: ckbe.at/newsletters The lives of a million New York City students and some 75,000 teachers changed dramatically Sunday evening, when the country’s largest school system announced it would be closing its doors to help stem the […]
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Find Your NYC School’s 2019 Graduation Rate
This story was originally published by Chalkbeat, a nonprofit news organization covering public education. Sign up for their newsletters here: ckbe.at/newsletters New York City students graduated at a record high of 77.3% last school year, continuing a steadily rising trend since 2005. City officials celebrated the 1.4 percentage-point year-over-year rise. Some of the gains, however, […]
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Number of Homeless NYC Students Remains Stubbornly High
This story was originally published by Chalkbeat, a nonprofit news organization covering public education. Sign up for their newsletters here: ckbe.at/newsletters One in 10 New York City students lacked stable housing last school year, according to new data released Monday. There were 114,085 homeless students at district and charter schools — numbers that speak to […]
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Fire, Rain and Union Tensions Test a Bronx Charter School
Parents and teachers at a Bronx charter school upended by fire, rain and a union-organizing standoff say management’s math doesn’t add up. Independent audits show the bank account of the 431-student Bronx Global Learning Institute for Girls doubling to more than $10 million between 2015 and 2018, as the nonprofit’s board of directors left piles […]