Beth Fertig

Local parent groups are hoping to show their strength at a meeting this week with the chancellor and press for more seats in one of the most overcrowded districts in the city.

A year after placing 94 struggling schools in a new program called Renewal, Chancellor Carmen Fariña told City Council members the schools are showing early signs of progress.

New York City has agreed to pay more than $50,000 to settle a lawsuit brought by six public school students who claimed they were unlawfully beaten and handcuffed by safety agents. 

School crowding is a big problem citywide, but a new report by one advocacy group claims immigrant neighborhoods are hit especially hard.

The decade-long fight for more and more transparent school funding in New York State continues. Plaintiffs in the latest case claim New York never complied with a landmark court order.

Community colleges around the country face the same dilemma: very few students graduate. CUNY has a surprisingly simple, but expensive, solution and other schools are taking note.

As affluent families gentrify pockets of New York City, the issue of school integration based on race and class is back in the spotlight. School leaders are weighing just how far to go.

The standardized test often called the "Nation's Report Card" shows math scores for New York state's fourth and eighth graders have dipped slightly over the past two years.

New York City will allow high school juniors to take the college entrance exam for free, during the school day, to expand the number of kids on track to apply to college.

City officials are asking the state for a four-month extension so they have more time to revise the way teachers are evaluated, and can roll out the changes next school year. 

Thousands of New York City students soon will take a test to get into some of the most elite public high schools. Odds are with the ones who prepared for months, or years, for this day.

She's not a candidate in waiting. Eva Moskowitz, the controversial leader of the Success Academies charter network, held a press conference to clarify what she was not going to do. 

Mayor Bill de Blasio is spending hundreds of millions of dollars to help struggling schools rebound. At M.S. 22 in the Bronx, the whole community is scrambling to show results. 

In what's become a fall tradition, the group Families for Excellent Schools organized a rally demanding more help from City Hall for charter schools.

The man who will succeed Arne Duncan is both inspiring — and controversial.

At age 40, John King Jr. will become one of the youngest Cabinet members in American history.

A group that fought for more pre-kindergarten and after-school programs claims the city continues falling short in providing childcare for infants and toddlers.

On the same week that Jews celebrated Yom Kippur and Catholics greeted the Pope, Muslim students have their very first school holiday.

The Department of Education has named a seasoned insider to overhaul how schools engage with families, but it's no easy task.

Mayor Bill de Blasio explained how his education agenda will improve all schools but he said he hasn't committed to specific diversity plans, in his interview with WNYC's Brian Lehrer.