This piece makes some sharp critiques, but the argument that more school spending pushes families to leave NYC is puzzling, + discounts the ways NYC's school budget already serves as social safety net, incl: ~$2B for free 3-K/Pre-K, >$600m for free meals, free dental/vision at 100s of schls, etc.
Students across New York couldn’t log into state math exams Wednesday morning, raising fresh questions about the transition to computer-based testing.
Scoop! NYC Chancellor Kamar Samuels is pulling four controversial proposals from Wednesday's PEP vote:
- Opening of 'Next Gen,' the city's first AI-focused HS
- Closing middle schools at P.S. 191 and Manhattan School for Children
- Relocating Center School
www.chalkbeat.org/newyork/2026...
Among the popular "industry credentials" in Philly schools: a 2-hour online ladder safety course that most employers who ask people to climb ladders would be required to offer anyway. Good work by @rebeccaredelmeier.bsky.social on what's going wrong in high school. www.chalkbeat.org/philadelphia...
Mayor Mamdani announcing at a press conference today that the "default model" for the new free 2-K program will subsidize child care 8am-6pm, year-round, in contrast to the default of 8am-2:20 pm, September-June for the 3-K and Pre-K programs.
Last week, Dylan Lopez Contreras returned to his Bronx high school after 10 months in ICE detention. It was a day full of joy, and also inescapable reminders of the threat of immigration enforcement still facing Dylan and his classmates: www.chalkbeat.org/newyork/2026...