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Select schools in New York City have bought AutisMate app

Efi Shapiro, a lightning bolt of a boy who can usually be found racing...

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The developer of the 'compulsive uses for autism daily life' app is Jonathan Izak, who originally developed it for his younger brother.

No new talks in bus driver strike

No new negotiations to end the school bus driver strike were scheduled...

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school bus strike: Students arrive at school off a school bus at the corner of Halsey street and Marcy avenue in the Bedford Stuyvesant section of Brooklyn. (Joe Marino for New York Daily News)

Walcott: I blame UFT boss

As a parent and grandparent of public school children and as a former...

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United Federation of Teachers President Michael Mulgrew.

Feds to take shot at ending bus strike

A school bus driver strike that has already inconvenienced students an...

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School bus attendants and their supporters walk a picket line near a bus depot in New York, Thursday, Jan. 17, 2013. New York City's first school bus strike in 34 years entered its second day Thursday with no resolution in sight and tens of thousands of parents scrambling to get their kids to school. Some parents said the strike was wreaking havoc with their schedules. The strike pits the city's need to rein in spiraling costs against the bus drivers' goal of preserving their jobs. (AP Photo/Seth Wenig)

Union accuses mayor of using inspectors for revenge

The bitter squabbling between the city and its teachers union may have...

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United Federation of Teachers Headquarters at 52 Broadway in Manhattan.
STEM: Science, Technology, Engineering and Mathematics

City schools getting mobile STEM apps

City kids can’t bring cell phones to school — but they will be able to get a city-backed math app to help them with homework. Mayor Bloomberg angered parents when he cracked down on cell phones in sch...

NYC public school's adopt new STEM program to boos...

Collegiate Institute for Math and Science chemistry teacher David Griffin conducts experiments to show the differences between ionic, covalent, and metallic compounds during a chemistry class on Wednesday, Jan. 2, 2013 in Bronx, N.Y. (James Keivom/New York Daily News)

At all levels, city schools are ramping up their focus on STEM — science, technology, engineering and math — to create the educated, entrepreneurial workforce that’s crucial to making the city the new...

Queens gets first ROTC program at CUNY campus in 4...

Lt. Col. Juan Howie (r.), who runs the York College ROTC program, and ROTC students Rose Lee and Jerome Tabaosares at the official launch of the ROTC program at York College on Thursday. It is the first ROTC program on a CUNY campus in more than 40 years.

As sentiment against the Vietnam War mounted and those in military uniform braved taunts of “baby killers,” the ROTC program was asked to leave CUNY campuses. But after a more than 40-year hiatus, the...

Murrow HS grad makes movie featued at Sundance

Eliza Hittman on the set of her first feature-length film "It

Eliza Hittman, 33, used two students from the 2012 graduating class in her film, “It Felt Like Love,” and used eight others as extras.

City to lose $250 million in teacher evaluation im...

New York City Mayor Michael Bloomberg (center, left) speaks with United Federation of Teachers President Michael Mulgrew (center, right) during a tour of P.S. 214 with Education Secretary Arnie Duncan (not pictured) in East New York on May 18, 2010.

BY RACHEL MONAHAN NEW YORK DAILY NEWS Bickering union leaders and city officials have refused...

NYC tutoring service under investigation

City Comptroller John Liu, center, said in his letter that the firm has twice been found to be improperly billing the city for its services — once by the Department of Education and once by Liu’s auditors. As a result, Champion has been forced to repay more than $6 million since 2009.

The largest provider of after-school tutoring services for city public schools pupils, Champion Learning Center LLC, has been under investigation since last summer by the Manhattan U.S. attorney’s off...

Salvaging P.S. 132 'Only the 1st step,' parents sa...

Community members and officials gather outside P.S. 132 Juan Pablo Duarte in Washington Heights to celebrate the Department of Education decision to keep the school open. The rally was held on Jan. 11, and was called by The Juan Pablo Duarte Public School (P.S. 132) Parent Community and Community Leader Carmen Rojas. Councilmember Robert Jackson attended, along with former Assemblyman Guillermo Linares, CEC 6 President Judith Amarro, community organizations (Institute Duartiano, & Mirabel Sisters Cultural and Community Center), parents and community advocates.

A near-failing Washington Heights elementary school that was staring closure in the face has been saved. Now, parents are expressing confidence that, with a little help, the school can be turned aroun...

20% or more bad teachers at 14 Brooklyn schools: S...

Principal Pamela Bradley speaks with students at P.S. 150 where 26% of the teachers - 5 of 19 faculty members were rated unsatisfactory.

They’re the unfortunate 14 — Brooklyn public schools with 20% or more bad teachers. Teachers with “unsatisfactory” ratings are most prevalent in borough schools that serve poor kids — includi...

Bloomberg and union continue to battle

Even as the city and the teachers union met to hammer out an agreement on new teacher evaluations before Thursday’s deadline, the two sides exchanged verbal blows and appeared to be far from making a...

School bus strike: Parents will struggle to get ki...

Union members of local 1181 amalgamated were on strike this morning at 1616 stillwell ave inj the bronx at the little richie bus company. The strikers attempted to stop the working union drivers of local 91 from pulling busses out but order was quickly kept by NYPD.

Thousands of parents will struggle to get their kids to and from school by taxi, subway or borrowed rides Wednesday as school bus drivers stage their first strike since the 1970s.

A tablet for every kid: Quinn

iPads have been flying off the shelves--Apple announced today that they have sold 2 million tablets in less than 60 days.

City schools should ditch textbooks and replace them with tablets, City Council Speaker Christine Quinn proposed Tuesday.

StudentsFirstNY, a reform group, issued report

PS/MS 4 principal Vincent Resto in 2009 photo

Teachers at Public School 4 in Crotona fumed about landing on a list of schools with poorly rated instructors.

Public school bus strike could hit NYC as early as...

School bus.

A crippling public school bus strike could hit the city as early as next week, the Daily News has learned. Sources said an announcement of the strike could come Monday, with yellow bus service for abo...

Time running out on St. Jude Elementary

The principal of St. Jude Elementary School shuts the school’s door on inquiring media (inset). Above, a flower-bedecked statue of the Virgin Mary stands inside the school’s lobby. Photos by Howard Simmons

St. Jude Elementary School is on its last legs; in the absence of a viable financial plan, it will take a miracle to keep the Inwood school from being closed.

City seeks to close four struggling Queens schools

The Business, Computer Applications & Entrepreneurship High School in Cambria Heights is one of four Queens schools that the city has proposed closing due to poor performance.

The days may be numbered for four schools in southeast Queens that failed to make the grade on the city’s report cards. The city has proposed phasing out Public School 140 in Jamaica and the middle sc...

City, UFT head back to table

Bank Street College on West 112 St. hosts Education Reform Hearing on Tuesday, October 16, 2012 where committee members hear from parents, teachers, school leaders and others in the New York City area -- speakers LEFT Schools Chancellor Dennis Walcott and RIGHT UFT President Michael Mulgrew - (Susan Watts/New York Daily News)

After weeks of name-calling and finger-pointing, the city and the teachers union are returning to the bargaining table on Wednesday to hammer out a new deal over teacher evaluations.

City schools getting mobile STEM apps

City kids can’t bring cell phones to school — but they will be able to get a city-backed math app to help them with homework. Mayor Bloomberg angered parents when he cracked down on cell phones in sch...

New York City to shut down 17 failing schools

This the Choir Academy of Harlem located at 2005 Madison Ave. The school is scheduled to be closed.

The city announced plans Monday to shut down 17 schools, many of which have never recovered from years of scandal and turmoil.

NYC public school's adopt new STEM program to boos...

Collegiate Institute for Math and Science chemistry teacher David Griffin conducts experiments to show the differences between ionic, covalent, and metallic compounds during a chemistry class on Wednesday, Jan. 2, 2013 in Bronx, N.Y. (James Keivom/New York Daily News)

At all levels, city schools are ramping up their focus on STEM — science, technology, engineering and math — to create the educated, entrepreneurial workforce that’s crucial to making the city the new...

A double dose of help for future New York doctors

Miloni Thakker (in red) and her sister Malvi Thakker (in stripes), who live in Queens, received half scholarships to attend medical school under the new CityDoctors scholarship program. The recipients agree to work as primary care physicians at a city Health and Hospitals Corp. facility for a period of time. They were joined at a ceremony at Gracie Mansion on Monday by (left to right) HHC President Al Aviles, Deputy Mayor Linda Gibbs and St. George’s University Chancellor Charles Modica.

Malvi and Miloni Thakker are used to doing everything together, whether it’s volunteering at a hospital or attending classes at York College. The twin sisters from Ridgewood will now be attending medi...

Bloomberg compares teachers union to NRA

Mayor Michael Bloomberg with survivors and family members of gun violence victims demand a plan to reduce gun violence from Washington at a press conference at City Hall, Monday December 17, 2012. Mayors Against Illegal Guns releases 34 "i Demand a Plan" videos - personal stories representing the 34 Americans killed with guns every day. (Bryan Smith/for New York Daily News)

He's mocked them. He’s berated them. He’s railed against their political tactics. But now Mayor Bloomberg is so angry at the leaders of the city teachers union that he’s blasted them with the worst in...

Bronx Catholic schools make case to Archdiocese

Sister Mary Cleary, principal of Our Lady of Angels, stands with students. They received a $100,000 check to keep the school open.

Bronxites trying frantically to keep eight Catholic schools open have a sympathetic ear in the priest who will decide their fates - but that doesn’t mean their beloved schools will be spared.

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