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parental rights
Sept. 19, 2023
Parental-Rights Extremism Is on the March Trump’s education proposal is a revealing document.
By Sarah Jones
NYC Schools Will Reopen With Increased COVID Testing Mayor de Blasio announced that students will be provided with at-home testing kits if there’s a positive COVID case in their classroom.
By Nia Prater
the national interest
Nov. 3, 2021
Democrats Need to Face Up to Their Public School Problem Education should be helping Democrats, not hurting. What happened?
By Jonathan Chait
Free Lunch Doesn’t ‘Spoil’ Schoolchildren A Wisconsin school board’s decision to ditch free meals for schoolkids exemplifies the “mean” in means-testing.
By Sarah Jones
u.s. supreme court
June 23, 2021
‘Cussing Cheerleader’ Wins in Supreme Court Free-Speech Case The Court decided 8-1 that obscene student tirades made on social media are protected unless they disrupt public-school activities.
By Ed Kilgore
new york city
Nov. 29, 2020
New York City to Begin Phased Reopening of Schools Pre-K and elementary-school students will be able to return on December 7, and the city is overhauling how it manages its schools amid the pandemic.
By Chas Danner
bill de blasio
Sept. 28, 2020
Bill de Blasio Has No Idea What He’s Doing Here He reportedly proposed “a contest” to come up with a plan to reopen schools. The chaos is so bad that one education union wants him stripped of power.
By Sarah Jones
coronavirus
Apr. 11, 2020
New York City Public Schools Will Not Reopen This School Year Mayor de Blasio announced Saturday that the city’s 1.1 million public-school students would not be able to return to their classrooms until September.
By Chas Danner
How Do You Get Laptops to 1.1 Million Public-School Students? An East Village principal, sick at home, tries to take his school remote.
By Petra Bartosiewicz
coronavirus
Mar. 15, 2020
New York City Public Schools Closed Over the Coronavirus Mayor de Blasio announced Sunday night that the nation’s largest school system would be closed through at least April 20, effective Monday.
By Chas Danner
coronavirus
Mar. 10, 2020
Our System of Federalism Is a Huge Problem in Fighting Coronavirus Chaotic national leadership in a public-health crisis is bad enough, but our chaotic and decentralized system makes it all worse.
By Ed Kilgore
interesting times
Aug. 23, 2019
The Presidency of Donald Trump Never Gets Any Less Absurd We have known this project’s nature since that journey down an escalator, and the surrealism has only intensified since.
By Andrew Sullivan
Trump May Try to Deport Legal Immigrants Who Get Federal Benefits In another big lurch in efforts to restrict legal immigration, Trump is mulling an order that would treat many people here legally as parasites.
By Ed Kilgore
lgbtq issues
Mar. 20, 2017
Kentucky Just Passed a Law That Allows LGBTQ Discrimination in Schools The “religious freedom” law could bar LGBTQ students from joining student groups.
By Claire Landsbaum
celebrities doing good
Mar. 6, 2017
By Tolly Wright
Betsy DeVos Cites Jim Crow–Era College System As Model of ‘School Choice’ The Education secretary explains that historically black colleges prove that publicly subsidizing unregulated private schools is a good idea.
By Eric Levitz
7 Years After the Recession, America’s Public Schools Still Haven’t Recovered American public schools have 200,000 fewer workers — and 1 million more students — than they did before the Great Recession.
By Eric Levitz
30 Newark Schools Shut Down Their Lead-Contaminated Drinking Fountains While Schumer proposes $100 million for New York schools to do their own testing.
By Samuel Lieberman
Report: Trans Students Mistreated in NY Schools Even after a 2010 nondiscrimination act, schools often fail to accommodate trans and gender-nonconforming students.
By Alex Ronan
public schools
Mar. 4, 2015
NYC Public Schools Add Two Muslim Holidays to Calendar Students will now get Eid al-Adha and Eid al-Fitr off from school.
By Jessica Roy
A Simple Way to Boost Minority Test Scores What it says about testing is worth thinking about.
By Jennifer Senior
scheduling snafus
May 19, 2012
NYC Public Schools’ Silly Final Week Schedule School year ends with a four-day weekend plus Wednesday half-day.
By Andre Tartar
where did all the white kids go?
May 12, 2012
NYC Public Schools More Segregated Than Ever Black and Hispanic kids are increasingly isolated.
By Andre Tartar
cathie black
Apr. 5, 2011
By Julie Gerstein
school daze
Feb. 28, 2011
By Chris Rovzar
Cathie Black Takes on Teacher Tenure Wow, going after the golden goose so soon?
By Chris Rovzar
Ryan Murphy: Glee to Aid New York City Public School for LGBT Teens They will donate scholarship money and funding to the Harvey Milk School.
By Bennett Marcus
school daze
Oct. 21, 2010
By Chris Rovzar
Zitner Candy Corp. Gears Up For Easter; Public-School Cafeteria Workers Union Plus the Times asks readers for spaghetti taco-like food mash-ups, and a UK chef finds a perfectly round egg, all in our morning news roundup.
school daze
Sept. 30, 2010
By Chris Rovzar
school daze
Mar. 25, 2010
Parents Irate Over Public High School Notification Delays Many city kids don’t know when they’ll find out where they’ll go to school next year.
By S. Jhoanna Robledo
Fourth Grade Fight Club : The SqueakquelTurns out there have been other incidents of teacher-mandated brawls at P.S. 65.
By Chris Rovzar
school daze
Jan. 28, 2010
Scary Cougar Teachers at James Madison Still on the Prowl ANOTHER teacher at the school was busted for inappropriate relations with a student.
By Chris Rovzar
The Times Asks: Should Teachers Sell Lesson Plans? And should they be allowed to buy vacations with the money?
By Lindsay Robertson
the third terminator
July 2, 2009
Bloomberg Flouts State Senate’s Efforts to End Mayoral Control of Schools The Board of Education met briefly yesterday to give power back to Schools Chancellor Joel Klein.
By Chris Rovzar
Bloomberg Dismisses Kindergarten Protests Um, you realize these people vote, right?
By Dan Amira
Now Middle-class Kindergartners Can’t Get Into Public School, Either As if being a 6-year-old in Manhattan wasn’t demoralizing enough already.
By Chris Rovzar