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New York City educators will face new restrictions on handcuffing or suspending students as part of a regulations proposed education department.

Rookie New York mayor Bill de Blasio – poster child for America’s insurgent progressives – has promised to rewrite “a tale of two cities”.

NEW YORK—Diana Acevedo loves school uniforms. They are so convenient and she ends up paying only about half of what she would pay for regular clothes—for her 10-year-old son that is.

The Specialized High School Admissions Test (SHSAT) might soon lose its bite. Council members introduced three bills Wednesday aimed at ending school segregation, including one to reform the specialized admissions process to let in more blacks and Latinos.

NEW YORK—Young gentlemen like Stephen Tripodi sometimes have to really apply themselves. Steve says his “early college” Career and Technical high school squeezes the usual four years of high school into six semesters.

NEW YORK—There’s something wholesome about being ready. It’s tied deep down to our notion of parenting. After all, we can’t live our children’s lives for them, so the next best thing would be to make them ready—ready to make the right decisions, make a living, and perhaps find happiness.

NEW YORK—Aronno Shafi is on top of her college game. A sophomore at the selective Stuyvesant High School, she visits her college guidance counselor sometimes every other day to figure out her schedule and make sure she’s on track to higher education.

New York City children are crammed into classrooms in record numbers and this may sabotage everything the administration is trying to do to improve public education, 73 professors of education, psychology, and child development stated in a Monday open letter to Mayor Bill de Blasio and Schools Chancellor Carmen Fariña.

NEW YORK—April Rose teaches at P.S. 132, an elementary school in Springfield Gardens, Queens. She spoke with enthusiasm about the last round of education reforms hitting her classroom after an August education forum. Some may have worried about her third-graders facing their first standardized tests last April, but she exuded confidence.

NEW YORK—Lineup of seven-graders looked at the corridor wall where the Voice Charter School of Corona, Queens, keeps the school’s values posted.

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The 4,000 new, high-efficiency bathroom fixtures installed in 28 New York City public schools are as green as planting 400,000 trees and letting them grow for 10 years, according to the New York City Department of Environmental Protection (DEP).

NEW YORK—Some community providers are having trouble filling their prekindergarten classes for the upcoming school year, a Brooklyn community activist said Tuesday.

A Brooklyn Teacher was arrested Tuesday morning for allegedly sending an indecent picture of himself to a 16-year-old student, Brooklyn District Attorney Kenneth P. Thompson announced.

In two weeks, close to 80,000 middle-schoolers will get the opportunity to engage in after school programs as doors will open to city children aged 11–13. Mayor Bill de Blasio set aside $145 million from general state education aid towards the initiative.

While officials throughout the state were quick to take credit for slight increases in this year’s standardized school test scores, data shows many schools continue to struggle with the new tests, which were aligned to the Common Core standards for the second year.