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Health care high school coming to Queens

A health care high school will be coming to Woodside, Queens in 2025.  Northwell Health and New York City Public Schools have partnered to design a new career-focused high school in an effort to address workforce shortages in healthcare. The school will “integrate health care career knowledge and job training with a high-quality, well-rounded high…

The snow day that wasn’t: parents, teachers and students react

After a very spring-like weekend, families were notified Monday morning that New York City public schools would be moving to remote learning due to Tuesday’s impending snowstorm. According to the correspondence sent out by the Department of Education, students would receive both synchronous and asynchronous instruction throughout the school day, and attendance would be taken…

6th Annual NYC Public School Film Festival

The 6th Annual Public School Film Festival (NYCPSFF) is currently underway and accepting submissions until March 25. The festival, which is hosted by the NYC Department of Education and the Mayor’s Office of Media and Entertainment (MOME), is open to all DOE middle and high school students.  Student filmmakers can submit a film that’s five…

We speak your language: Which translation services are available to NYC public schools families

As part of the public school Gifted and Talented Kindergarten application process, parents of children not currently enrolled in Universal Pre-Kindergarten are interviewed by Department of Education employees to ascertain whether the applicant qualifies for inclusion into the G&T lottery. During this assessment, families are asked whether the child poses many questions? Whether they engage…

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