Anna Phillips

"You're not invited anymore," were union president Michael Mulgrew's words on his decision to uninvite city education officials from joint evaluation training sessions for teachers an...

In a joint hearing of the higher education and K-12 education committees, City Council members asked Department of Education officials how it was possible to assign meaning to an incr...

In a robo-call placed to teachers on Tuesday night, their union's president, Michael Mulgrew, urged them to attend the monthly meeting of the Panel for Educational Policy at Brooklyn ...

Community organizations and church groups packed a Williamsburg, Brooklyn, middle school on Tuesday night to protest the planned arrival of a Success Academy charter school, which the...

UPDATED | Gov. Andrew M. Cuomo's executive budget has quite a bit to say about education in New York. Along with a four percent spending increase -- contingent on school districts ado...

Gov. Andrew M. Cuomo is at his peak of popularity, but only a slim majority of voters in New York believe that he will fulfill his declaration to be a lobbyist for students, a new po...

A day after Mayor Michael R. Bloomberg said he would circumvent the teachers union to create his own teacher evaluation process, the union is trying to force the city back to the negotiation table.

As rain and wind battered the Morris high school campus on Thursday morning, students said they were excited to have a prominent guest in Mayor Michael R. Bloomberg, who has chosen th...

Three charter schools in Williamsburg, operated by the Believe Network, are slated to be closed after suffering management and financial woes for years. Shutting them down could affec...

New York City's Department of Education announced plans on Monday to close two long-troubled charter schools in Brooklyn and Queens at the end of this school year: Williamsburg Charte...

Three days ago Education Department officials told principals at the city's struggling schools to proceed as usual, despite the state's suspension of nearly $60 million in federal gra...

About two dozen current students and recent alumni gathered on the field across from the entrance to the Bronx High School of Science to protest the school's high rate of teacher turn...

Dr. Nancy Carlsson-Paige wrote a letter on behalf of herself and her actor son, Matt Damon, to the National Education Association, saying she no longer would accept the union's Friend...

In a speech that only touched on educational matters -- and when it did was very short on details -- Gov. Andrew M. Cuomo did not say whom he would appoint to a new bipartisan educati...

Now that the state has suspended payments for improvements to the city's struggling schools, principals are wondering: What happens to the SmartBoards, teachers and programs they have...

A state Supreme Court judge has rejected a request by parents and advocacy organizations for an immediate order to require New York City to charge charter schools rent for the space t...

The Math for America program, which attracts and trains math teachers, is shifting its focus away from new recruits to teachers who are already in the classroom, and plans to more tha...

UPDATED | One of the many overcrowding battles in Manhattan came to an unhappy conclusion for a group of Murray Hill parents after city officials rejected their proposals to open a new school a year ahead of schedule.

UPDATED | In what has become a common refrain in the closing schools debate, students, teachers and parents at Washington Irving High in Manhattan blamed the city for sending them som...

The City Council on Monday approved a new law that requires the Department of Education to give parents and school staff regular updates on the status of PCB light fixtures and the city's actions to replace them.