We're having a tough time understanding the city's public school system right now. First they're all proud that graduation rates are up. Then it turns out that some of those graduating kids were actually delinquent, failing...

Did a Brooklyn teacher duct tape a special ed student's mouth shut? That's what one mother, Cathy Allan, is claiming. She has now filed a $3 million lawsuit against the NYC Department of Education. Details are...

Though the DOE is considering developing new tests for gifted admission, they may be ignoring the one part of the test that worries parents most. Statistics showed that the number of black and Latino students admitted...

Now it turns out that another public school—PS 3 in Greenwich Village—had a field trip at Long Beach last Tuesday, the same day that Columbia Secondary School sixth grader Nicole Suriel drowned there. According to the...

Parents are speaking out against proposed rules that could suspend students for "sexting" both on and off school property, saying it's their responsibility to discipline their kids when they're not at school. The new rules could...

After taking beatdowns that put him in the hospital, special needs student Kimquan Green wants out of Middle School 142 in the Bronx. Though two of the boys who punched and kicked the 14-year-old on June...

The Department of Education is just saying "no" to sexting! And cyberbullying, for that matter. According to the Daily News, public school kids will be banned from the controversial means of communication, even when they're off...

The DOE has been faced with an ever-worsening budget crisis this year, one that has already forced them to cut busing for 7th and 8th graders and free school lunches, and may ultimately result in thousands...

Now that everybody in the school already knows which biddies want to tap which hotties, the Department of Education has condemned Stuyvesant High School's "crush list." Though the tradition of posting a "crush list" goes back...

Good thing the state is up for that school funding, because these kids look like they need all the help they can get. On this year's state math exams—administered to students in the 3rd through 8th...

After announcing it would cut free school lunches for the majority of public school students, the Department of Education revealed it would cut busing for seventh and eight graders, thanks to state budget cuts. NY1 reports,...

Photograph of Mayor Bloomberg, flanked by Deputy Mayor Dennis Walcott, Schools Chancellor Joel Klein and UFT President Michael Mulgrew by Spencer Tucker/NYC Mayor's Office Yesterday, the city and the United Federation of Teachers announced that the...

Recently parents and kids gathered at City Hall to protest the DOE's ban on homemade treats at school bake sales and a New Yorker reporter bore witness to "the noise made by wooden spoons being banged...

In this file photo, a dangerous perp is apprehended by police. The pre-teen who was cuffed and detained after doodling on her desk this year wants the city to pay $1 million in damages for its...

Remember Cindy Mauro and Alini Brito, the thirty-something language teachers at James Madison High School who were caught naked during their lesbian rendezvous on school grounds while their students were at an assembly? Of course you...

Nearly 80,000 of the city's eighth graders are left wondering what to do after not receiving their high school assignments due to a lawsuit from United Federation of Teachers and the N.A.A.C.P. Both parents and students...

Flickr user soopagrover For the second year in a row, children have been placed on waitlists for kindergarten placement. Over 112 public schools have waitlists, with over 2,000 children left without placement and parents worried their...

Tomorrow, 8th graders around New York were supposed to find out where they're going to be attending high school in the fall. But, due to a lawsuit from United Federation of Teachers and the N.A.A.C.P. over...

A Queens tot toddled home alone, and though he made it back without incident, his mother thinks the school should pay. Michelle Baylor is taking the city and PS 147 principal Anne Cohen to court for...

You’ve heard it described, now two filmmakers are ready to give us a rare glimpse into the bizarre saga of NYC’s infamous rubber room. The long-term holding area for misbehaving teachers—fodder for many a sordid Post...

As the debate over bake sales rages on—with a City Hall "bake-in" scheduled for tomorrow—the Times takes a close look at both sides of the bitter butter battle. In one camp there's the Education Department, which...

Debbie Almontaser Just days after the Equal Employment Opportunity Commission decided the Education Department discriminated when it forced the ex-principal of an English-Arabic academy to resign, another school head has stepped down. Meanwhile, the school's founder...

Unsurprisingly, transit employees have joined the movement of opposition to student MetroCard elimination, just one of the many cuts threatening their mother company, the MTA. "The City of New York has a responsibility to ensure that...

NY’s Regent exams have been administered since 1865, but this year, in light of penny pinching measures throughout the Department of Education, some of the tests may be eliminated or drastically scaled back. Next week the...

These days the Post is not only reporting on the Department of Education’s Rubber Room, it’s sending people there! The tabloid says that after an incident last week, in which a Brooklyn gym instructor allegedly assaulted...

The Department of Education mailed out thousands of inaccurate letters to parents informing them that their children attend schools that are failing. The botched mailing—which was sent to parents of students at 16 schools citywide including...

Months after it barred schools from holding most food fundraisers, the city says bake sales can go on—as long as no homemade treats with undisclosed calorie counts grace the fold-out tables. The new regulation, designed to...

Comptroller Thomas DiNapoli thinks he's found a hidden pocket of funds that may help solve city schools' financial woes—problem is the money's locked away tight where no one can get to it. An audit revealed $615...

Alan Rosenfeld In its latest assault on the Department of Education’s Rubber Room (a long-term city holding area for bad teachers) the NY Post has published a list of its top offenders. That is, those who...

Alan Rosenfeld, en route from Central Casting to the Rubber Room Today's update on Alan Rosenfeld, the ex-teacher who landed in a Department of Education teacher reassignment center (aka Rubber Room) nearly a decade ago for...