NEW YORK – New York Attorney General Letitia James, California Attorney General Rob Bonta, and Connecticut Attorney General William Tong today announced that

Zohran Mamdani captured a broader section of the electorate in the New York mayoral election compared with the primary. A Times analysis maps the differences.

The city’s public schools retained a former education official nicknamed the “shadow chancellor,” Dan Weisberg, as a consultant on the matter.

New York City, where I live, will elect a new mayor Tuesday, Nov. 4. The two front runners — state lawmaker Zohran Mamdani, the Democratic nominee, and former Gov. Andrew Cuomo, running as an independent — have largely ignored the city’s biggest single budget item: education.  One exception has been gifted education, which has generated a sharp debate between the two candidates. The controversy is over a tiny fraction of the student population. Only 18,000 students are in the city’s gifted and talented program out of more than 900,000 public school students.

NEW YORK –  Unionized journalists at the Daily News have reached a tentative agreement with the paper’s owner, Alden Global Capital, for a first contract that …

New York City’s public schools are suing the Trump administration after it slashed millions of federal dollars from local magnet programs as part of a campaign against policies regarding tran…

A month into the school year, a clearer picture of how New York City public schools have implemented Gov. Hochul’s phone ban is coming into focus — with students, parents and teachers reporti…

Democratic nominee for mayor Zohran Mamdani has made universal childcare a centerpiece of his campaign. The governor and Democratic mayoral nominee differ on raising taxes. [ more › ]

Zohran Mamdani, the Democratic front-runner in the New York City mayoral race, said Wednesday he wants to double the size of a program for homeless students at public schools in a plan shared exclu…

Democratic front-runner Zohran Mamdani’s foray into the future of Gifted and Talented programs this week reignited a heated controversy over the popular program in New York City public school…

The superintendent of the largest school district in Iowa has been detained by federal immigration officials. Superintendent Ian Roberts of Des Moines Public Schools was detained Friday morning, accor...

Last spring, Dylan Lopez Contreras became the first known local New York City student to be swept up in President Trump’s immigration agenda.

The Trump administration has claimed citywide gender guidelines on school bathrooms, locker rooms and sports were out of compliance with federal sex-based discrimination law.

Local education officials are weighing a challenge to the Trump administration for saying it will revoke New York City’s magnet school grants over its gender policies for bathroom-use, as May…

The data reflect a slight improvement from the previous year but the attendance rates a far cry from where observers hoped city schools would have rebounded to by now.

The new devices, part of a partnership with T-Mobile, are equipped with LTE or 5G, which students without WiFi at home can use to access the internet.

The audit found city schools did not provide 48% of English Language Learners with legally required courses or minimum instructional minutes.

The survey results come as New York City’s school system gets ready to implement the state’s cellphone ban, a response to what public officials see as the growing dangers associated wit…