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Under a proposal to be taken up Monday by the Board of Regents, teachers across New York State will be evaluated based partly on how their students perform on state exams.

Teachers and principals have been feeling tremendous pressure to raise scores on elementary and middle school state exams – especially since the pass rate fell dramatically last year. At PS-IS 327 in Brownsville, Brooklyn, teachers and students were well aware of the importance of this year's test.

City parents can't resume voting just yet in the trouble-plagued community education council elections.

City parents and some politicians claim the Department of Education has bungled the community education council election, which is supposed to provide an avenue for parent engagement.

New York City teachers are trying once again to stop their report cards from being released to the public. An Appellate Court panel will hear arguments Tuesday over whether the city can release teacher ratings to the media. The ratings rank each teacher's effectiveness based on how much progress students made on state exams.

The city's Panel for Educational Policy voted to phase-out three more low-performing schools late Thursday night. The vote capped an emotional night even as the new schools chancellor appealed for respect.

Despite the city's push to recruit more candidates, a little more than 500 parents applied to run for 325 seats on Community Dducation Councils — that's about the same low level as the last elections two years ago.

The deadline for city parents to apply and run for positions on Community Education Councils that sign off on school zoning changes and play an advisory role is Friday — but the city is still struggling with waning interest in the posts.

The so-called war board is the the most eye-catching item in Principal Brian Rosenbloom’s office at Chelsea Career and Technical Education High School. It's a big, white dry-erase board listing the names of all seniors along with the number of credits and Regents exams needed to graduate in June.

The city said it's running out of time to strike a deal with the teachers union on a plan to improve failing schools.

The city is having trouble finding enough parents to run for seats on local Community Education Councils. 

Cathie Black isn't the only person announcing a departure.

It's been almost three months since Cathie Black took over as Chancellor of the New York City public schools. Since then, the ex- publishing executive has been sharply criticized for several gaffes and only 17 percent of city voters approve of her, according to a recent poll. Yet, Black is going about her business attending meetings and visiting schools.

Children at PS 29 in Cobble Hill are set to say the Pledge of Allegiance Monday for the first time in more than a decade. Principal Melanie Woods said she didn't know the school was out of compliance with state law until a family brought it to her attention in February.

The Bloomberg administration launched a new computer system for the city schools three years ago, but the $80 million system hasn't yet achieved its full potential — even at schools that use it heavily.

When the demonstrations started in Egypt in January, teacher David Bally got excited. His mother is from Syria and he chairs the social studies department at the Lyons Community School in Brooklyn.

The reassignment centers known as rubber rooms may be a thing of the past, but the city's Department of Education has yet to fully eliminate the number of teachers awaiting disciplinary proceedings. And most of those who were in limbo are now back in schools.

Eleven schools serving 1,500 blind, deaf and severely disabled children fear their students may get an inferior education under Governor Andrew Cuomo's proposed budget.

A state task force in New Jersey released a set of recommendations designed to improve the state's education system.

Mayor Michael Bloomberg said he and Governor Andrew Cuomo should be able to "work something out" to change the state's law regarding teacher layoffs, but what would that solution look like?