Beth Fertig

Transit officials don't know how long it will take to fix the vacuum train that derailed in Brooklyn last week but they hope to have their other one working by the end of the month.

One of the Democrats who's running for mayor says the recent 10 point gain in fourth grade reading scores isn't all it's cracked up to be.

Another batch of test scores is out, and once again New York City public school students showed big gains.

The number 9 train has made its final voyage.

The City has agreed to pay almost $5 million to the AIDS service group Housing Works to settle an eight-year-old lawsuit.

Thirty six percent of all New Yorkers were born outside the United States, according to the 2000 Census.

Fourth grade English scores in New York City went up 10 percentage points, the largest one-year gain to date.

A huge pile of earth slid down onto a highway, complete with an uprooted tree. 

School safety agents are taking a brief course on tolerance and diversity.

 The effort has reduced crime by 40 percent at those schools.

The first phase of the Transit Authority's plan to move clerks out of their token booths starts in 3 weeks.

MTA board members reluctantly voted to postpone renovating 12 subway stations because Albany's budget fell short of what they requested.

The Transit Authority says extra police added to buses and subways ended an uptick in crime, but that thefts of portable MP3 players and cell phones are still sharply on the rise.

Schools Chancellor anticipates that an Assistant Principal will be removed from her job after an investigation has confirmed that she called a class of Haitian students "animals."

The city has won its fight to remove a teacher who was found guilty of sexual misconduct in 1998. 

The President of the New York City Transit Authority said his agency is trying to improve service delays, which went up by 12 percent last year.

Haitian parents and community members are demanding that Chancellor Joel Klein fire the principal and assistant principal of an elementary school over allegations of racist behavior.

Columbia University will implement a more formal procedure for students to complain about their professors.

The Bronx district attorney has agreed to dismiss the charges against a principal accused of assaulting a police officer.

It’s been three and a half years since the World Trade Center was destroyed by terrorists.