Education

New York City has partnered with Planet Fitness for a second year, offering the High School Summer Pass™ program. The initiative gives NYC high school students aged 14-19 complimentary access...

On June 26th, Mayor Eric Adams announced that the New York State Assembly and Senate recently passed a bill observing Diwali as a school holiday. Diwali, known as the Hindu...

Thousands of students and staff members' confidential information was exposed in a sweeping cyber-attack on New York City Public Schools in a recent announcement by the city's Department of Education....

  PLACE applauds parents who stepped up to run for Council seats and volunteer their time to make our public schools better. - Chien Kwok, Co-President, PLACE NYC New York...

Parents in Brooklyn's District 20, including Bay Ridge, Dyker Heights, Borough Park, Sunset Park, and parts of Bensonhurst, have called for a return to merit-based middle school admissions. In 2020,...

New York City faces yet another battle in the aftermath of the COVID-19 pandemic. Shockingly, recent studies show that nearly 56% of the city’s 12th graders have been chronically absent...

“Thank you so much Chancellor Banks for finally bringing phonics back to the school system of the City of New York so that our children will be able to read...

New York City has the largest public school system in the nation, and we are proud of our dedicated teachers and administrators who do so much to educate our talented...

On Thursday, May 11th, Schools Chancellor David Banks convened a roundtable with ethnic and community media to present New York City Reads, a new initiative to tackle declining literacy rates...