Applications for the 2021-22 Chalkbeat Student Voices Fellowship are now closed. In a First Person essay published last school year, Samantha Charles, then a 10th grader in New York City, described walking through metal detectors every day at school. I…
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Jumaane Williams won the special election for NYC public advocate. Here’s where he stands on education issues.
City Councilman Jumaane Williams was elected Tuesday as New York City’s next public advocate, the bully pulpit that holds no enforcement power but can amplify issues deemed important to New Yorkers.Williams, who has been on the City Council since 2009,…
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City students rally against possible end of free student Metrocards
Hundreds of New York City high school students rallied outside of the Metropolitan Transit Authority’s Manhattan headquarters this afternoon to protest budget cuts that would eliminate free student Metrocards.The students came from all corners of the c…
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Remainders: A 400-charter cap is "ridiculous," NYSUT veep says
Gov. Paterson said the education coalition that sued him today “don’t care about anybody but themselves.”Alan Lubin of NYSUT, part of that coalition, said raising the charter cap to 400 would be “ridiculous.”Peter Murphy of the state charter associatio…