Author: Ananya Chetia

Sign up for Chalkbeat New York’s free daily newsletter to get essential news about NYC’s public schools delivered to your inbox.Students at the Queens High School for the Sciences have been calling on the city to move their school to a new building, citing problems with overcrowding, lack of a kitchen and auditorium, and other challenges sharing a facility with York College.The school, which is the borough’s only specialized high school, is housed on the second floor of York College’s Jamaica building. That arrangement isn’t working for the school’s roughly 500 students, students and families said. “We have a gym…

Sign up for Chalkbeat New York’s free daily newsletter to get essential news about NYC’s public schools delivered to your inbox.How do New York City students, parents, and teachers really feel about the nation’s largest school system? Earlier this week, Chancellor Melissa Aviles-Ramos gave her “State of Our Schools” address, painting a rosy picture of her approval ratings from principals. More than 90% of school leaders who responded to a principal survey last year said they trusted the chancellor, she said. But that’s in contrast to how teachers feel: More than a third of those who responded to last year’s…