Education
Education in New York
The largest school system in the country: admissions fights, budget cuts, the chancellor, CUNY, and what actually reaches kids and teachers. The decisions that follow a family for years, explained plainly.
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Education, explained
The questions New Yorkers actually ask.
Who runs New York City’s public schools?
The city does, through the Department of Education and a Mayor-appointed Chancellor, making it the largest school district in the country at more than a million students. But Albany controls a big share of the funding and sets major rules, so a classroom fight is often really a state budget fight.
What’s the deal with NYC’s specialized high school test?
A handful of elite public high schools, Stuyvesant and Bronx Science among them, admit students by a single exam, the SHSAT, which state law protects. Most other schools use a different mix of criteria. Whether that one test is fair is one of the oldest and angriest fights in the city’s schools.
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