New York Post

By YOAV GONEN, Education Reporter
Just 8 percent of city elementary schools met state requirements for arts instruction in the 2007-08 school year, according to a new report. And that figure was double what it had been the prior

By YOAV GONEN
City officials have agreed to pay for the education of hundreds of students who claim they were prevented from attending regular classes at their Brooklyn high school and otherwise encouraged to drop out, The Post has learned.

By YOAV GONEN
These aren't your older siblings' charter schools. Ten years after state law was amended to allow for the creation of independently run public schools, charter proposals in New York are...

By DAREH GREGORIAN
The controversial Columbia University professor who was canned for plagiarism just months after a noose was found hanging on her office door is suing to get her job back.

By YOAV GONEN Education Reporter
The Department of Education is nickel-and-diming the parent councils that represent each school district in the name of system-wide budget cuts, angry council reps told The Post.

By YOAV GONEN
The city's A-through-F school-rating system may be headed Down Under. Australian officials, seeking greater transparency and accountability in their schools, are turning to Schools...

By MELISSA JANE KRONFELD and YOAV GONEN
The business schools at Columbia and New York University remained among the most selective in the nation, according to rankings released today. In the 2009 Princeton Review Best 296 Business

By RITA DELFINER
When Mary McInerney was 8 years old, she was so distressed that a beloved, mentally retarded cousin could not read that she resolved she "would teach people like him."

By MAGGIE HABERMAN
As he moves to seek a third term, Mayor Bloomberg has his sights fixed on two priorities: retaining mayoral control of the school system and shoring up the city's economy.

By YOAV GONEN
School officials yesterday enlisted "Sex and the City" star Sarah Jessica Parker to encourage people to shop till they drop this week, all to aid school libraries. She helped announce...more >

By YOAV GONEN, Education Reporter
The teachers union has been handing out thousands of Barack Obama campaign buttons to its members, sparking a clampdown by education brass. The Department of Education - which has a

TEEN USE DOWN
By VALERIE BAUMAN, AP
ALBANY - A soon-to-be-released report on smoking in New York will say the number of high-school students smoking cigarettes has declined more than 2 percent since 2005.

By DAVID SEIFMAN
The city should add two Muslim holidays to the school calendar to forcefully demonstrate that all religious groups are welcome here, advocates declared yesterday. A City Hall hearing on making...

By YOAV GONEN
Just under 40 percent of elementary and middle schools where teachers could earn bonuses for boosting student performance got the payouts, education officials said yesterday. In a controversial

By YOAV GONEN
The city's second round of assigning A through F letter grades to its elementary and middle schools is expected to produce better marks overall this year than last year, dozens of principals