Anna Phillips

Alarmed by reports of declining numbers of black and Latino students in the city's elite high schools, two groups began offering free tutoring. One of them, the Science Schools Initia...

The Success Academy charter school network has been green-lighted to open three new schools in Brooklyn next fall, but that has not led to acceptance in neighborhoods like Cobble Hill...

The two sides met on Tuesday, hours after the union asked the state’s labor review board to intervene. There was no progress and Chancellor Dennis M. Walcott criticized union leader Michael Mulgrew for not attending.

Tony Fisher, 47, the acting principal, was named to permanently replace Eileen Coppola, who in 2010 became the third principal to resign in five years.

Like their peers across the country, black and Hispanic public school students in New York City have been disciplined more harshly than other students, and they are less likely to be ...

Black students, and boys in particular, are more likely to be harshly disciplined in school than other students, according to new data from the U.S. Department of Education. The new i...

Schools and teachers are still reeling from the release and publication of their performance ratings -- particularly at two Brooklyn schools, where teachers received low ratings despi...

Nearly one in ten students who applied in the first round of the city's high school admissions process did not receive a match. But there are still options for parents and students, i...

The Panel for Education Policy voted to allow a Success Academy charter school's opening in the fall inside of a Williamsburg middle school; parents in the Bronx are worried about ove...

Teachers have found many errors in their data reports, and city education officials acknowledge that the rankings are imprecise. Still, the records will probably remain as they were r...

On Wednesday the city said that more black and Latino students were accepted into the city's elite public high school in the admissions process. On Thursday, more eighth graders will...

Black History Month is coming to a close and 217 charter school teachers get their turn under the microscope as their rankings are made public.

The city fulfilled a court order on Tuesday to make teacher evaluation data public by releasing its last batch of performance ratings, this time for 217 city school teachers and 50 sp...

As students and teachers returned to school on Monday after the publication of 18,000 teachers' performance rankings, many parents said they were looking at their children's teachers'...

Outside the doors of the Tweed Courthouse, the headquarters of the city's Education Department, there were few champions on Friday of the release of individual performance rankings of 18,000 public school teachers.

In a guide sent to public school principals on Friday, city officials suggested that they respond to upset teachers' concerns by telling them that the Department of Education "did not...

The City Education Department has called for investigations into nine high schools for irregularities in the way the schools scored examinations or awarded credits, and has identified...

New figures on police activity in city schools show that in the fall, safety agents and officers arrested about five students a day. On Wednesday, advocates used this statistic to cri...

After three school employees were charged with sexually molesting children in the last two weeks, the city's Education Department announced on Friday that it will tell principals if j...

Mayor Michael R. Bloomberg said on Thursday that his administration will continue to push for the closing of 33 struggling schools, although the original reason given for this interve...