After Chicago’s teachers union concludes its election, it will start three days of protests. (Answer Sheet) A parent offers a dispatch from the frontiers of urban schools’ field trips by subway. (NYC Taught Me) Newark’s Cami Anderson: Reform efforts focus too much on principals, not their managers. (Rick Hess) Eight mayoral candidates said in surveys that they’d [...]

The Board of Regents and the Assembly are teaming up next week to push for legislation that would give New York’s roughly 150,000 undocumented students access to financial aid for college. On Monday, the Board will convene a forum in Queens on immigration and education to wrap up of their monthly meeting. The forum will discuss [...]

Distressed by state tests that they say did not reflect the way they want students to learn, several city principals are pledging not to use the scores to help them pick their students. Selective middle schools consider students’ fourth-grade reading and math scores, and selective high schools look at students’ seventh-grade scores. But after the first round [...]