Yesterday, the Post published an article exposing a principal at P.S. 38 who tried to pressure her staff into giving her a good review on the annual Learning Environment survey....

Educational management organizations (EMOs) are for-profit management companies that provide operational assistance to charter schools, usually focusing on back office functions such as accounting, legal help, and human resources. EMOs...

We’re instituting our first regular feature: a roundup of the most interesting, most discussed education studies published each month. In the future we’ll try to publish the list on the...

Yesterday, the U.S. Department of Education named its winners for the competitive Race to the Top education funds. Unsurprisingly, New York was not one of them. New York, in fact,...

According to a report released by the IBO today, the percentage of DOE spending on "Classroom Instruction" will be reduced under the new city budget to only 42% of total...

Today, New York State Supreme Court Judge Joan B. Lobis ruled that the school board vote to close 19 city schools next year is “null and void.” This decision raises...

Joel Klein recently announced the number of teachers in the Absent Teacher Reserve (ATR) pool, including a breakdown of teachers by years of service. One common question is how these...

We had two questions after reading SUNY’s lukewarm renewal report for the UFT Charter School: What did the UFT Charter School get on its Progress Reports? And, a smaller point...

Buried on the DOE’s website is a page that lists per pupil spending on a school-wide, district-wide, and system-wide basis. Using this information, as well as expense data from the...

A recent IBO report found that New York City charter schools that don't use public space receive around $3,000 less per pupil than traditional public schools. This post reviews how...