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New York City parents starkly split on whether replacing decades-old high school exit exams with Portrait of a Graduate standards is good idea. More at: https://www.the74million.org/article/good-riddance-to-regents-exams-or-will-ending-them-leave-a-void-for-ny-grads/

How parents feel about it: https://www.the74million.org/article/parents-weigh-in-on-nycs-old-school-snow-day-with-no-remote-learning/

I found my inspiration for this post very close to home: https://www.the74million.org/article/is-high-school-necessary-maybe-not-and-both-students-districts-could-benefit/

A recent ranking of public elementary schools exposes a key component to student success, but the top schools approach it in vastly different ways. Read more at: https://www.the74million.org/article/one-approach-high-performing-public-and-charter-schools-share-and-how-to-do-it/

Read all about it at: https://www.the74million.org/article/in-arguing-over-the-right-age-for-gifted-testing-gt-gatekeepers-miss-the-point/

Families with older students are most likely to oppose the blanket edict; others say a one-size-fits-all approach needs to be changed. Read more at: https://www.the74million.org/article/from-bring-it-on-to-this-policy-is-crazy-nyc-parents-react-to-cellphone-ban/

In 2020, around 3,500 incoming New York City kindergartners were deemed eligible for a public school gifted-and-talented program. In 2021, that number spiked up to over 10,000. What happened to nearly triple the number of identified “gifted” students in NYC in a single year? Find out, as well as what that means for your child’s education at:

everal studies have concluded that kids who are youngest in their class are disproportionately diagnosed with ADHD. A Michigan study found that kindergartners who are the youngest in their grade are 60% more likely to be diagnosed with ADHD than the oldest in their grade. And it doesn’t affect just kindergarteners: A North Carolina study

My third child graduated from her public high school on June 20, bringing to an end my over two decades of participation in the New York City educational system. But I wasn’t just a passive observer. While my children were in public schools, I was also an advocate. Here are three things I learned after

Thanks to a smaller-class-size mandate, by September 2027, New York City classes will be capped at 20 students in kindergarten through third grade, 23 in fourth through eighth grade and 25 in high school. This will necessitate the hiring of 3,700 public school teachers, as well as the creation of hundreds of new classrooms within already overcrowded