Anna Phillips

Reflecting on his first year as chancellor of the city's schools, one marked by protests over school closings and the public release of teacher rankings, Dennis M. Walcott said that, ...

StudentsFirstNY, the new political group formed by leaders of the education reform movement like Joel I. Klein and Michelle Rhee, officially announced its arrival on Wednesday morning.

City officials announced on Tuesday that they will revoke the charter for a Williamsburg high school that opened in 2004 and has suffered from governance and financial problems.

New York City's Department of Education withdrew its plans on Monday to close seven schools and reopen them this summer, but officials said they would proceed with plans to close 26 o...

Three days a week, as the school day draws to a close, Jennifer Aaron's kindergarten class at P.S. 150 in Manhattan sits down to compose a message about what they have been doing all ...

New York City's Education Department will spend $51 million to open 26 new charter schools next year, according to a report released on Thursday by the Independent Budget Office. The ...

With only three months left until the end of the school year, city education officials are proceeding with plans to close and reopen 33 schools this summer. On Tuesday, officials sent...

After years of painful cuts and threats of teacher layoffs, city officials on Tuesday laid out a decidedly more optimistic portrait of financing for city schools next year, saying the...

The number of elementary school students in classes of 30 or more has tripled in the last three years as a result of teacher attrition and budget cuts to public schools, according to ...

New York City's teachers' union is calling on state lawmakers to restore money for teacher centers, which function as the training and development arm of some city schools. Although t...

A year after city education officials made the controversial decision to take the space allotted to a planned progressive elementary school and hand it to a KIPP charter school instea...

Peninsula Preparatory Charter School, an elementary school in Far Rockaway, Queens, was granted a temporary restraining order on Wednesday, putting the city's plans to close the school on pause.

The Manhattan borough president, Scott M. Stringer, on Wednesday demanded that the city immediately remove any products in school lunches containing a low-cost meat filler known to it...

At a panel discussion on high-stakes testing Monday night, the chief academic officer of New York City's public schools said that principals were not alone in being concerned about th...

In a letter on Monday to Chancellor Dennis M. Walcott, Michael Mulgrew, the president of the teachers' union, reminded city officials that any loan forgiveness program for teachers mu...

Just how expensive is a public school education? SchoolBook and WNYC are turning to readers this week to get a better understanding of the fiscal state of New York City's public schoo...

New York City's Department of Education removed the principal of a Brooklyn high school from his position on Friday, a decision that caught school staff by surprise and fueled complai...

The state Education Department announced on Thursday that it would hire a team of investigators and lawyers to overhaul and modernize the state's handling of test tampering complaints...

Legislative leaders agreed Thursday to turn a new teacher evaluation system into law, bringing New York a step closer to ensuring that the state will hold on to $700 million in federa...

Nearly four years after overcrowding in Greenwich Village led parents and elected officials to demand a new school, the city has agreed to buy 75 Morton St., a seven-story state-owned building.