Beth Fertig

The site can serve up to 70 students.

There’s a big difference in schools in middle class and wealthy districts, and those where a majority of children are poor enough to qualify for free lunch.

In a letter to principals Thursday, Chancellor Dennis Walcott said that with the opening of school next Thursday, it's important to "engage students in a meaningful discussion."

There’s a big difference in how public schools in middle class and wealthy districts, and those where a majority of children are poor enough to qualify for free lunch, can weather bud...

Juhyung Harold Lee thought his teaching career was over last year, with the city's plan to lay off hundreds of young teachers. He made plans to go to law school. Instead, he spent Aug...

The teacher data reports are based largely on student test scores and were given to about 12,000 elementary and middle school teachers.

Stringer said Verizon should make good on its promise — especially because it continues to do business with the schools by providing phone and internet service.

DiNapoli's office cited "ongoing investigations and continuing revelations" with respect to News Corporation.

The union sued to prevent the city from giving the ratings to media outlets and said making the ratings public violates teacher privacy.

Under the system, student growth on the state's annual tests could count for up to 40 percent of a teacher's performance review and observations would count for 60 percent. 

Letting go of teachers for budget reasons has become an annual tradition in New York City, known as "excessing."

Forty-five percent of charter students passed the English test, about the same as the rest of the city.

Under the plan, principals will report to them instead of to their district superintendents, and no teachers will be removed.

The Department of Education said it received definitive test results on unsafe levels of the toxic chemical trichloroethylene.

About 53 percent of New York's elementary and middle school students passed their state English tests this year and 63 percent passed the math exams.

Orthodox Jews had been lobbying for the change for years.

The city and state teachers unions are urging the state to reject a $27 million contract with an educational technology company owned by Rupert Murdoch's News Corp.

Schools Chancellor Dennis Walcott says four year graduation rates have gone up for black and Latino males to a little over 50 percent.

Mayor Bloomberg said Wednesday that he raised $1.5 million dollars to save the tests statewide.

Frank Borzellieri served as principal of Our Lady of Mount Carmel School beginning in 2009.