David Banks’ comments come as conversations about school cellphone bans are once again heating up in Albany.

Another school calendar battle? NYC faces a 1-day week after next year’s winter break.

New York lawmakers will have to navigate questions over how to update the state’s school funding formula, as well as the uncertainties of a second Trump presidency.

Nineteen of the 30 schools selected for the first Journalism For All cohort are in the Bronx and Brooklyn, and the schools have an average student poverty rate of 84%.

Some school leaders would like to use their school budgets to give gift cards to families, but find their hands tied by the Education Department’s procurement rules.

P.S. 103 has three music teachers for its roughly 800 students, allowing every student to get music instruction and for the school to support both a choir and band.

The city is funding a guaranteed income program for the first time ever, joining a growing movement of antipoverty programs across the country.

A growing number of elected officials, including U.S. Senate Majority Leader Chuck Schumer, spoke out in recent days urging the panel to approve the contract.

The move to pull the contract came just one day after Comptroller Brad Lander raised objections to the AI tool, which listens to students as they read and offers feedback.

City officials want to spend $1.9 million on an AI tutor to help students learn to read. Comptroller Brad Lander says the city needs a clear policy on the technology first.

The conference marked 20 years since city officials made major reforms that set the admissions system on the path to what families see today.

The nonprofit network helps operate 17 city public schools that cater exclusively to newly arrived immigrant students, serving as a national model for educating newcomers.

The School for Global Leaders, an International Baccalaureate middle school on Manhattan’s Lower East Side, will welcome its first ninth grade class next year.

Principals worry the funding will eventually be pried out of their budgets and said hiring quality teachers could be a challenge.

Black or Latino students represented 51% of the top students in each school’s graduating class last year. But they made up just 36% of students who qualify for direct admission to SUNY.

At a Monday Board of Regents meeting, state education officials called for a $2 billion increase in state aid for the 2025-26 school year, as well as updates to Foundation Aid.