Mark (Jennifer Preissel / Gothamist) Last month, 240,000 students and their teachers returned to the corridors of New York City’s 500 public high schools. Gothamist sat down with teachers at different stages of their careers—some entering...

Chris (Jennifer Preissel / Gothamist) Last month, 240,000 students and their teachers returned to the corridors of New York City’s 500 public high schools. Gothamist sat down with teachers at different stages of their careers—some entering...

Erik (Jennifer Preissel / Gothamist) Last month, 240,000 students and their teachers returned to the corridors of New York City’s 500 public high schools. Gothamist sat down with teachers at different stages of their careers—some entering...

Dre (Jennifer Preissel / Gothamist) Last month, 240,000 students and their teachers returned to the corridors of New York City’s 500 public high schools. Gothamist sat down with teachers at different stages of their careers—some entering...

Bridget (Jennifer Preissel / Gothamist) Last month, 240,000 students and their teachers returned to the corridors of New York City’s 500 public high schools. Gothamist sat down with teachers at different stages of their careers—some entering...

Shane (Jennifer Preissel / Gothamist) Last month, 240,000 students and their teachers returned to the corridors of New York City’s 500 public high schools. Gothamist sat down with teachers at different stages of their careers—some entering...

Farragut community members cheer for Reverend Taylor, who is in favor of pushing back the rezoning decision for two years (Emma Whitford/Gothamist) Concerned Brooklyn residents gathered in the auditorium at PS 307 in Vinegar Hill last...

Stressed-out PS 8 parents line up to ask questions about their kids' futures. (Emma Whitford/Gothamist) More than 100 anxious parents gathered in the auditorium at PS 8 in Brooklyn Heights last night to discuss the proposed...

Morgan Lane Photography/Shutterstock Special needs students across the city have spent the summer sweltering in non-air-conditioned school buses where temperatures have crept past 90 degrees, according to a lawsuit filed today by Public Advocate Letitia James....

(a.tanski/flickr) Naftuli Moster had a goal: He wanted to become a psychologist. "The idea of being able to help people through understanding their struggles and working it through with them amazed me, yet it was also...

Locke, a 17-year-old transgender student from upstate, whose testimony is featured in the report (NYCLU) Public schools across New York state continue to demonstrate a fundamental ineptitude when it comes to addressing the needs of transgender...

(Brooklyn Heights Blog) Brooklyn Heights parents are enraged that their local public school is too packed to accommodate many of their young Georginas and Marmalades, forcing them instead to commute to not-so-nearby Vinegar Hill. Of the...

Via Facebook A 32-year-old teacher at the Bronx High School of Science has been accused of paying underaged teen boys to send him nude photos, according to reports. He was arrested yesterday and has been slapped...

"How to pass the exam" It is a high school rite of passage to find a way to improve your academic performance without actually studying harder, at least in Hollywood, where 25-year-old teenagers attempt to kill...

When Taylor Swift's song "Welcome to New York" was released, it wasn't exactly well-received by all New Yorkers. It's simply not one of her best songs—it sounds more like a NYC Tourism jingle, and it didn't...

(Google Maps) A fourth-grade teacher at a Bedford-Stuyvesant public school was arrested yesterday for allegedly paying a 16-year-old boy to perform oral sex on him. The teacher, identified as Waris Grant, was arrested at PS 256...

Sean Shaynak (Facebook) Allegedly pervy Brooklyn schoolteacher Sean Shaynak is back in the news this week, after a former student sued the Department of Education for failing to put a stop to his notorious behavior. Which,...

(Oldrich/Shutterstock) A federal appeals court has tossed a suit contesting New York State's requirement that children be vaccinated for contagious diseases in order to attend school, which is good news for anyone who doesn't take Jenny...

(AntonioDiaz/Shutterstock) It's been a long, strange trip for the city's cell phone ban in schools, with many parents urging lawmakers to allow students to openly use phones in school. Earlier this year, Mayor de Blasio said...

Two of the creepy photos uncovered by the Post Brooklyn Technical High School math and science teacher Sean Shaynak has been accused of having sex with underage students, asking underage students to engage in lesbian sex...

Sean Shaynak (Facebook) Another day, another round of disturbing revelations about Brooklyn Technical High School math and science teacher Sean Shaynak. The mother of one of Shaynak's alleged victims talked to the Post about her daughter's...

Sean Shaynak (Facebook) [UPDATE BELOW] More and more charges have been mounting against Brooklyn Technical High School math and science teacher Sean Shaynak—he's been accused of having sex with underage students, asking underage students to engage...

Bread and Roses High School / Inside Schools A Manhattan principal has been fined $7,000 by the city's Conflict of Interest Board after he secretly changed his son's failing grade... eleven times. Abdurrahim Ali, who was...

P.S. 190 in Brooklyn, a Dangerous School (Google Maps) The state's Department of Education released its lists of the 47 most dangerous schools—both newly dangerous and persistently dangerous—and 40 of them are in NYC, primarily Brooklyn....

A former principal of a junior high school in the Bronx was arrested yesterday after authorities accused him of swiping $30,000 from the school's account to help fund his very expensive extramarital affair. Robert Hannibal, 59,...

(Google Maps) An erstwhile guidance counselor at a Queens school is suing the Department of Education over claims that two teachers she worked with left urine and feces in her office, all because she reported that...

A missing poster on the Upper West Side (Jen Chung / Gothamist) The mother of Avonte Oquendo, the 14-year-old autistic boy who tragically died after disappearing from his Long Island City school last year, has filed...

(paulista / Shutterstock) Two Brooklyn elementary school students have been arrested for allegedly putting rat poison in their teacher's water. Cops say that two boys, ages 9 and 12, allegedly put "a substance consistent with rat...