The city’s eight specialized high schools are regarded as crown jewels but also symbols of segregation. The number of Black and Hispanic students admitted to them dipped slightly from last year.

A new government estimate, along with a study by the nonprofit Partnership for Public Service, provides a long-awaited window ...

Bentley, General Counsel and Deputy Commissioner for Legal Affairs for the New York State Education Department, speaks with ...

New York City’s Education Department has yet to release highly anticipated high school admissions statistics, marking the first time in more than a decade that officials have not disclosed the results ...

SYRACUSE, N.Y. — New York State has cut the Mary Nelson Youth Center off from its youth food program at least temporarily.

President Donald Trump has reestablished the Presidential Fitness Test for American children. This test, a staple in schools ...

The Trump administration has released nearly $7 billion in federal funding that was withheld from K-12 public schools. But ...

Leaders of community colleges say many students are confused about the status of their loans and failing to repay them. If ...

The Americans with Disabilities Act paved the way for accessible public transit across the region. In NYC and on Long Island, ...

In 1977, over 100 disabled activists occupied a federal building in San Francisco for nearly a month, demanding their civil ...

U.S. kindergarten vaccination rates inched down again last year and the proportion of children with exemptions rose to an all ...