Yasmeen Khan

The mayor's push to expand pre-k in New York comes with an estimated cost per child: $10,239/year. A visit to one pre-k classroom helps explain what the money buys.

Chancellor Carmen Fariña names her second-in-command and a new deputy chancellor to focus on professional development, curriculum and implementing the Common Core learning standards.

While on the governor's Albany turf, Mayor Bill de Blasio provided more detail on plans to tax wealthy residents to expand pre-kindergarten in New York City. His testimony came less t...

Just because schools were in session doesn’t mean the people could get there. Plenty of New York City schools on Wednesday muddled through staffing shortages and a student attendance ...

In his budget address Tuesday, Gov. Andrew Cuomo highlighted education priorities for the next fiscal year, including universal pre-kindergarten, merit pay for teachers and amending t...

After a meeting with the new schools chancellor, parent leaders said they got a taste of what they were missing from the previous administration: being heard and understood.

"Coming to a new setting is very, very hard," said the principal of Bronx International High School. "It was a struggle for me, and I see the same struggle for them." SchoolBook check...

D.O.E. staffers will continue to monitor a Far Rockaway elementary school, after a New York Post report called out its principal's attendance and cited a lack of materials.

This year, families are being told to apply online rather than go to their local schools to submit the paperwork in person.

Mayor Bill de Blasio promoted his plan Monday to tax wealthy New York City residents as the most stable way to finance pre-kindergarten and after-school programs.

It didn't matter that temperatures were in the teens and wind gusts rolled in mightily. Bundled-up New Yorkers took the opportunity of a snow day to frolic in the white stuff.

In one of her first duties as chancellor, Carmen Fariña called a snow day early Friday morning to the delight of schoolchildren and teachers alike while some parents, on the other han...

Come Jan. 2, multiple bus companies will pick up the thousands of routes previously covered by Atlantic Express and its affiliates, which closed for business on Dec. 31.

On The Brian Lehrer Show, WNYC's Beth Fertig talks about the appointment of Carmen Fariña as De Blasio's schools chancellor, and takes calls from parents and teachers.

With schools closing Friday for winter break, Mayor Michael Bloomberg and Schools Chancellor Dennis Walcott made one last school visit together at Bard High School Early College in Qu...

Families may face another January of school bus struggles as the company Atlantic Express prepares to close. There is no firm plan in place for students who relied on Atlantic to get ...

There was no significant difference in New York City's 2013 scores on national math and reading tests compared to two years ago when the exams were last administered. City officials p...

To enroll at West Brooklyn Community High School, students must buy in to a certain level of support and counseling. In exchange, the school promises to keep them on track to graduate...

The foundation arm of the education publishing giant Pearson will pay $7.7 million.

At a Brooklyn forum organized by the New York Education Department, parent after parent praised Common Core for helping to equalize educational opportunities for students in poorer ne...