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More than 2,000 city eighth-graders got matched to high schools - even though they never applied to them.

After watching most of their classmates win admission to high school in late March, these students applied a second time, only to end up wi...

More isn't necessarily better - especially when it comes to the number of students crammed into western Queens classrooms.

Local leaders spoke out at a rally in Corona Tuesday about overcrowding, demanding that the city revise its formula for de...

The latest salvo in Harlem's space wars between charter schools and public schools is a stencilled poster comparing a charter school to the Nazis.

A misspelled sign on the wall of Public School/Middle School 149 in Harlem reads, "Charter schools...

Since Mayor Richard Daley took control of Chicago schools in 1995 and began appointing business-minded CEOs to head the system, the march toward a numbers-driven, test-and-punish vision of public education has been steady.

Some insist kids are b...

An architect of some the city's key school reforms has resigned his job as deputy chancellor, city officials announced yesterday.

Eric Nadelstern's departure comes just months after Mayor Bloomberg brought in magazine exec Cathie Black for the c...

Parent-backed testing of caulk at city public schools found high levels of a cancer-causing toxin, officials said.

Testing of caulk from six schools around the city last month found levels of polychlorinated biphenyls, or PCBs, as high as 325,00...

Schools Chancellor Cathie Black joked that there's a simple solution to overcrowding in lower Manhattan - birth control.

"Could we just have some birth control for a while?" Black said Thursday night. "It would really help us."

Black earned ...

Inspectors warned that practical work was too prescriptive in up to a third of secondary schools as pupils were left “merely following instructions”.

Despite improvements in recent years, these schools were more concerned with preparing pupi...