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Ray Lazier Lengend, 40, faces charges of criminal possession of a weapon, arson as a hate crime and arson. 

The American Museum of Natural History plans to put its galleries and laboratories on offer to master's students in a new training program in earth science education. The Master of ...

New York City is one of 10 districts statewide to be promised the funds.

For many high school seniors, this vacation week may be spent working on, or perhaps agonizing over, college applications. Deadlines for many universities are in January, while othe...

P.S. 48 elementary school in the Bronx is celebrating being one of three grand prize winners in the "Glee Give a Note" campaign. 

Defense Secretary Leon Panetta and Army General Martin Dempsey, chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff, marked the end of the Iraq War with ceremonies Thursday in Baghdad.

Lori Cohen and Kathleen Slocum described the role for-hire drivers can play in the sex trafficking industry. 

A WNYC program looks at local community groups and their organizing efforts to help schools in struggling neighborhoods. A professor says the most successful models he studied were th...

Many teachers say they are ready to trade in the imagery of apples, A B C's and chalkboards for a more high-tech branding of the classroom. How would you redesign teachers?

New York City education officials are talking to parents this week about how to set pre-K students on the path to college in a series of citywide information sessions.

A group of civic leaders in Queens is proposing once again to turn an old rail line that runs through Forest Hills into an elevated park. Several community leaders proposed the idea...

The judge's ruling will allow the developer to pay back rent to Con Ed or challenge the amount due.

Had a hankering to plant a community garden? Want to scrub the graffiti off a nearby building and paint a mural instead? The non-profit group Citizens Committee for New York City is t...

The Fair Wages for New Yorkers Act, would require that companies in development projects subsidized by the city pay workers $10 an hour with benefits.

The Fair Wages for New Yorkers Act would require that businesses in development projects subsidized by the city pay workers $10 an hour with benefits.

City council members are reviving the debate over a living wage bill by introducing a revised version of the legislation on Tuesday. The proposed measure, called the Fair Wages for N...

Governor Chris Christie and New Jersey's acting Education Commissioner Chris Cerf announced a package of four reform bills as part of the state's waiver application:.

Seven New York City math and science teachers who try to make learning experiential and (gasp!) fun will receive Sloan Awards for Teaching Excellence in Science and Mathematics, an ho...

When members of the public want to know how many people visited city-owned museums in a given year or how much city agencies paid workers in overtime, they can check the Mayor's Man...

Parents, students and teachers demonstrated in support of Public School 161 in Crown Heights, Brooklyn, which is in danger of being closed by the Department of Education. The school's...