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Young people train at Fort Hamilton High School to become city lifeguards.
Posted inPools and Beaches

Beach Season in NYC is Just Beginning. For New Lifeguards, It Began Months Ago.

May 22, 2025, 3:45 p.m.May 22, 2025, 4:31 p.m.
The Parks Department now has training centers in high schools across the city, and is hoping to change the culture of the beach watchers.
Posted inHow to New York

How to Apply for Summer Food Benefits for NYC Kids

Feb. 24, 2025, 3:20 p.m.Feb. 24, 2025, 3:20 p.m.
Families can get $120 per child through the Summer EBT program, which is open for applications through Sept. 3, 2025.
Kathy Hochul is standing inside City Hall wearing a black blazer and black shirt while speaking at a podium that says city of yes.
Posted inAlbany

School Phone Ban, Early College, AI Guardrails: Hochul’s 2025 Education Agenda

Jan. 14, 2025, 5:03 p.m.Jan. 14, 2025, 5:03 p.m.
Gov. Kathy Hochul will move to limit cellphone use in New York schools this year, she said during her annual State of the State address in Albany.
Posted inHow to New York

How to Serve on Your Local School Council in NYC

Jan. 9, 2025, 8:28 p.m.Jan. 9, 2025, 8:30 p.m.
Applications open soon for Community Education Councils, or CECs, where parents weigh in on school zone boundaries, academics, school budgets and more.
Stuyvesant High School in Manhattan, Dec. 17, 2018.
Posted inEducation

English Learners Rarely Get Into City’s Specialized High Schools. This Student Came Achingly Close.

Dec. 5, 2024, 4:56 p.m.Dec. 5, 2024, 4:57 p.m.
A change made to public schools’ Discovery program in an effort under former Mayor Bill de Blasio to boost the numbers of Black and Latino students at specialized high schools created an eligibility rule that may be excluding those very students.
Posted inCity Department of Education

NYC Extends High School Application Deadline After Tech Glitch

Dec. 4, 2024, 4:46 p.m.Dec. 5, 2024, 10:34 a.m.
The glitch only affected two schools — Millennium and NYC Lab School for Collaborative Studies — but families said that it could have had ripple effects on their rankings.
Posted inHealth

Childhood Vaccine Coverage Remains High in New York, But State Not Fully in the Clear

Oct. 16, 2024, 11:43 a.m.Oct. 16, 2024, 1:40 p.m.
Recent data on kindergartners during the 2023-24 school year show that measles, mumps and rubella vaccine coverage in New York is the third-highest rate in the country.
Posted inPublic Schools

Early Dismissal: Schools Chancellor David Banks to Step Down Months Ahead of Schedule

Oct. 2, 2024, 9:51 p.m.Oct. 3, 2024, 1:05 p.m.
The public schools honcho last week said he would retire on Dec. 31. On Wednesday, that date was changed to Oct. 16.
(R-L) New York City Mayor Eric Adams, Melissa Aviles-Ramos, and Schools Chancellor David A. Banks at Bronx School for Law, Government and Justice on Wednesday, Sept. 25, 2024.
Posted inEducation

Next Schools Chancellor Melissa Aviles-Ramos Says She’ll Have Mayor Adams’ Back

Sept. 25, 2024, 6:10 p.m.Sept. 25, 2024, 7:02 p.m.
“I want you to see me as a symbol of stability,” said Aviles-Ramos, who was quick to cast herself as an ally to the istration in the midst of several federal investigations.
Schools chancellor David Banks speaks at the opening of the newly-renovated P.S. 487 in the South Bronx.
Posted inEducation

Schools Chancellor David Banks Announces He’s Retiring Amid Federal Investigations

Sept. 24, 2024, 8:15 p.m.Sept. 25, 2024, 6:57 a.m.
Federal agents visited David Banks’ home the day before school started and seized his phones as part of a broader investigation into of Mayor Eric Adams’ inner circle.

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