Job Posting: Special Ed Teacher
PACE High School is looking for an NYS-certified special education teacher to join their PACE Family. PACE is a small High school located in lower Manhattan serving a diverse community. If you know anyone interested, please email resume and cover letter to admin@pacehsnyc.org ____________________________________________________ CITE is the Center for Integrated Training and Education. For over 25 […]
Help us report on youth mental health in NYC
Two weeks ago, New York City launched a new effort to address the ongoing youth mental health crisis: free online therapy for city teenagers. The statistics illustrating the depth of that crisis are sobering. Nationwide, three-quarters of high school students experienced at least one “adverse childhood experience” – traumatic events linked with long-term mental health challenges – during […]
What’s in a name? Students at NYC’s largest school for newcomer immigrants push for change
The name of New York City’s largest public school for immigrant students succinctly describes who it serves: Newcomers High School. The school, located near a cluster of newly opened homeless shelters in Long Island City, Queens, has lived up to its name, enrolling perhaps more migrant students over the past two school years than any […]
As shelter limit for migrant families nears, NYC schools try to prepare
New York City schools have started preparing for a massive reshuffling of students as early as next month, as thousands of migrant families face a new limit on shelter stays, education officials said during a Wednesday city council hearing. Approximately 2,700 families have received notices since Oct. 27 that they’ll either have to reapply for shelter […]
Sustainability, arts, math: ‘Themed’ middle schools are spreading, but do they help students?
On a sunny Friday in early November, four 10- and 11-year-old boys stand on the corner of 26th Street and Fourth Avenue in Brooklyn, holding homemade clipboards and signs that read “Take our food equity survey.” A young man rushes past the group, headphones on, eyes on his phone. Susan Tenner, executive director of the […]
NYC schools conduct remote learning practice ahead of winter recess
New York City public school families: Get ready to log into remote classrooms this week as the city prepares for potential weather-related or other school building closures. Families may have already received communications from their schools urging them to sign into online accounts and take other steps to prepare for possible remote learning days. The […]
A former tutor’s off-Broadway show tackles NYC’s high-stress high school admissions
New York City’s high-stakes high school admissions process is taking center stage in a new off-Broadway production. School Pictures, running through Dec. 3 at Playwrights Horizons theater, draws on playwright Milo Cramer’s experience as a tutor, which often entailed preparing kids for the Specialized High School Admissions Test that determines entry to eight coveted public […]
With influx of migrants, NYC school enrollment ticks up for first time in 8 years
The number of students attending New York City’s public schools increased for the first time in eight years, a sign that enrollment may be stabilizing in the wake of deep declines during the pandemic. About 915,000 children from 3-K to 12th grade enrolled this year, up 0.9% from last year, or roughly 8,000 additional students, […]
