Beth Fertig

New York City’s public schools don’t get out until Monday. 

Before No Child Left Behind’s testing requirements went into effect in 2003, the state spent $14 million annually on testing for grades three through eight. 

A proposal to eliminate the state's annual exams in social studies for elementary and middle school students will be considered Monday by a Board of Regents committee.

Public libraries might take a big hit amid the state budget crisis.

In its effort to control obesity, New York City has limited the number of bake sales in public schools to once a month and evenings.

As New York State raises its math and reading standards to conform with the Obama administration's agenda, officials have predicted scores will suffer.

An investigation by WNYC found the schools with the greatest needs got less stimulus money on aggregate than those with wealthier students. 

WNYC wanted to compare the city’s neediest schools with those we considered the least needy. 

Schools with poor students actually had more resources to fall back upon during last year’s budget cuts.

US Supreme Court Justice Sonia Sotomayor told graduates of Hostos Community College in the Bronx that the school played a big role in her family's success.

The state's Public Employment Relations Board is currently mediating talks between the city and the teachers union.

Mayor Michael Bloomberg announced on Wednesday that he will not lay off 4,400 teachers this fall as expected.

New York City is applying for a $20 million federal grant to reduce teen pregnancies by teaching comprehensive sex education in public schools.

 Cuomo has proposed ways to rein in the costs.

First of all, he worries that setting a 2 percent property tax cap would be the (near) equivalent of California's infamous Proposition 13.

The city's public schools need a more consistent policy for testing and educating immigrant students who missed out on years of schooling, according to a new report.

City Councilman Robert Jackson noted that there were two different scenarios for the coming fiscal year: "bad" and "horrid."

The city’s fourth-graders made significant progress on a 2009 national reading test, but eighth-grade scores didn't budge at all.

The city is preparing to layoff thousands of teachers if the governor's worst-case scenario budget goes through.

New York lost the first round of a federal funding contest in part because the state limits charter schools.