Mary Ann Giordano

A deal over teacher and principal evaluations was announced with much fanfare, but the question of the 33 schools in need of improvement lingers. And another school employee was charg...

Local TV reporters were already camped out outside the governor's office on Thursday, the deadline for a deal over a new state teacher evaluation system. The state's talks with New Yo...

The Times reports on Wednesday that, of the roughly 15,500 households in the city with school-age children where the total income is at least $150,000 and both parents were born abroa...

If your child has a birthday after Aug. 31, he or she might be ineligible for kindergarten in some city charter schools, The Post reports -- a policy of the charters that is tolerated...

Educators at Public School 142 Amalia Castro on the Lower East Side are turning the world around the school into a living laboratory for its littlest students, with the goal of introd...

The focus of educators in recent years has been on closing racial and ethnic gaps -- and the efforts appear to have had some success. But now comes news that the achievement gap betw...

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Eva Moskowitz and her Success Academy charter schools are in the news on Thursday, again as the target of a lawsuit to try to stop her from establishing a new school, this time in Cobble Hill, Brooklyn.

A new poll released Wednesday found that only 24 percent of New York voters considered mayoral control of the schools a success, while 57 percent said it was a failure. The voters st...

The parade and tribute to the Giants' Super Bowl victory is likely to draw thousands of students -- and maybe a few teachers? -- to the celebration in Lower Manhattan, and though ever...

In the news on Monday, Michael Winerip's On Education column in The New York Times, and accompanying examples of student writing for the English Regents exam, will have you, as he wr...

Can you blame them? After last week's study showing that student achievement is higher in the city's new, small high schools -- and city officials reiterated their commitment to a pol...

In the news on Wednesday, the tabloids continue to have a field day with the case of a teacher who has collected his $100,000-a-year salary for a decade while assigned to "rubber room...

Helpful news out of the city's Education Department: It has released a directory of all elementary school programs in the public schools, just in time to help parents who are register...

Private school tuition rates have been on the rise in the city -- so much so that the annual tuition is hovering on the brink of $40,000 a year, even for the lowest grades. That means...

With $58 million in federal grant money still in suspension until the city can reach a deal on a teacher evaluation system for its struggling schools, the principal at Chelsea Career...

UPDATED | The small schools initiative that has been the hallmark of the Bloomberg administration's schools policy seems to be working, a new study has found. The study, which is bein...

Should students be required to remain in school until age 18? That was the one concrete proposal for K-12 students in President Barack Obama's State of the Union speech on Tuesday nig...

A solemn, 30-second political-style television advertisement by the United Federation of Teachers will start running on Tuesday, saying that Mayor Michael R. Bloomberg "still doesn't ...

UPDATED | Teachers, teachers, teachers. This was the focus of the education news in the city this weekend, from reports that the state is closer to an evaluation system to a touching ...