Public Education

Bassick High School and Barnum School in Bridgeport, Connecticut have applied for additional state funding to help improve poor academic performance and low attendance rates.

New Haven Mayor Justin Elicker has proposed a citywide literacy and math initiative to provide afterschool and summer tutoring for students in first to fifth grades.

Connecticut Attorney General William Tong has launched a civil rights investigation into alleged hiring discrimination at a Greenwich school.

As Connecticut educators prepare for what is expected to be the most normal back-to-school season in three years, they've been encouraged to focus on STEM learning.

According to a new report, Long Island schools are more segregated now than they were 12 years ago.Even though the non-white student population on Long…

Voters on Long Island approved all 124 school district budgets on Tuesday. It’s the first time that’s happened since single-day voting was introduced in…

Amid continued public protest, the New York Board of Regents has dropped the name Common Core and replaced it with Next Generation Learning Standards.The…

New York State’s education commissioner said Tuesday that new state-specific learning standards will offer several improvements over the controversial…

Up to half of Long Island public school students could opt out of math exams this week, in what has become an annual protest by parents against Common…

Some school districts in New York are getting creative to increase student participation in the state’s school lunch program. That’s according to a new…