Rezoning Plan for District 2 Has Many Parents Unhappy
In some of Manhattan's most elegant neighborhoods, where apartments are bought and sold with an eye to where school zone lines lie, the City Department of Education is proposing to redraw those lines...
View ArticleZoning Plan Would Add Stability to Pair of Downtown Schools, Principals Say
In the West Village and Chelsea, two schools share a single zone in an unusual arrangement that lets parents choose between the two. At a meeting on Tuesday night to discuss a rezoning proposal that...
View ArticleRezoning Will Not End Crowding Issues, District 2 Council Members Say
Members of District 2’s Community Education Council indicated Wednesday night that they were not fully satisfied with the city's rezoning proposal for the sprawling Manhattan district, saying the plan...
View ArticleDistrict 2 Council Rejects Two Rezoning Plans
In a surprise turn on Wednesday evening, a parent council representing much of Lower Manhattan and the Upper East Side unanimously rejected two city proposals to rezone public schools.The proposals...
View ArticleCity Abandons Rezoning Plans for Village and Chelsea
10:45 a.m.|UpdateCity officials have dropped their plans to rezone crowded public elementary schools in Greenwich Village and Chelsea after a parent council voted down their most recent plan. Instead,...
View ArticleMore Objections to Move of Policy Panel Meeting
With the city's announcement of the list of schools that it intends to close now made, criticism shifted back to the planned expansion of the school system.Objections from the public continue over the...
View ArticleReading, Writing and Recipes: Cooking in the Classroom at P.S. 3
With about one in three children in the United States overweight or obese, more schools are looking for ways to teach healthy eating choices. To that end, a group of parents and chefs at Public School...
View ArticleOn Keeping Church and Schools Separate
The United States Supreme Court refused in December to intervene in a 16-year legal battle against New York City’s prohibition on the use of schools for religious worship services. Some 160 religious...
View ArticleA Father's Place Is in the School
There have always been fathers involved in school PTAs, in fund raising and education governance and politics. But as Kyle Spencer reported in The New York Times last week, these days there are not...
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Deal Reached to Buy a Greenwich Village Building for a City School
Courtesy of Irene KaufmanThe city's Education Department has agreed to buy 75 Morton Street, a state-owned building in Greenwich Village.Nearly four years after West Village residents and elected...
View ArticleLooking for a Job? Chances Are, the PTA Is Hiring
School budget cuts, rising expenses and grander ambitions for student activities have driven up the cost of sending a child to a New York City public school. Earlier this spring, SchoolBook asked...
View ArticleDistrict 2 Parents Mull Latest Rezoning Plans
Parents in Manhattan's District 2 have at least two weeks to study new rezoning plans, one covering Midtown East and another for Greenwich Village and Chelsea. The Department of Education has outlined...
View ArticleUnhappy with Testing — and Not Just Complaining About It
For parents and educators hoping to change what they consider a high-pressure climate around standardized tests, Gov. Andrew Cuomo missed the mark this week when he proposed increasing how much student...
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