Author: Amy Zimmer
Sign up for Chalkbeat New York’s free daily newsletter to get essential news about NYC’s public schools delivered to your inbox.Mayoral frontrunner Zohran Mamdani’s big education agenda, free child care for all, aims to keep families with young children in New York City. But would the program, costing an estimated $6 billion a year, convince families to stay for elementary school?Child care is just one piece of an interconnected web of affordability and education issues that influence whether families leave the city when they have children. Also in play: housing, availability of after-school programs, school quality, and navigating school admissions,…
Sign up for Chalkbeat New York’s free daily newsletter to get essential news about NYC’s public schools delivered to your inbox.A group of 16 Democratic attorneys general along with Pennsylvania Gov. Josh Shapiro filed a lawsuit Thursday against the Trump administration for halting access to hundreds of millions of dollars of federal pandemic relief money. School districts had earmarked the money for tutoring struggling students, supporting homeless children, upgrading HVAC systems to improve indoor air quality, and a host of other programs to address the long-term effects of the COVID-19, the lawsuit said.Under extensions granted by the Biden administration, schools…
Sign up for Chalkbeat New York’s free daily newsletter to get essential news about NYC’s public schools delivered to your inbox.Some New York City students who have lost, damaged, or otherwise non-working school-issued OMNY cards have been waiting over a month for replacements, parents and educators said. They are especially concerned that the delays could hurt attendance for recent immigrants, who might fear that jumping a turnstile to get to school could lead to deportation.Education Department officials insist, however, that new cards — which they receive from the Metropolitan Transportation Authority — can be delivered within a week of requesting…
Sign up for Chalkbeat New York’s free daily newsletter to get essential news about NYC’s public schools delivered to your inbox.In Stuyvesant High School’s sixth-floor library, about a dozen students brainstormed how to raise money to buy equipment or assistive technology for students with disabilities.They talked about whether artificial intelligence should be used in diagnosing cognitive differences (they decided against that). They discussed their ongoing project to examine language used in special education. They even delved into the debate between nature versus nurture.In some ways, it was just another Thursday at Stuyvesant High School, where after-school clubs were abuzz with…