Changes to Fair Student Funding formula for next year
This week, Mayor Eric Adams and Chancellor Banks also announced proposed improvements to the Fair Student Funding (FSF) formula for the 2023-2024 school year. FSF is based on the number of students enrolled in each school and the needs of its students. The changes come after the Fair Student Funding Working Group made recommendations on…
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Tech Fund Fellowship Program application open
First Tech Fund’s Fellowship Program is a year-long fellowship program for low-income students in NYC to help put them on college and career paths by providing them with free technology and creating a community of…
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How your school can apply for an Open Street
The NYC Department of Transportation’s Open Streets program creates spaces for children by closing off the streets from cars and traffic. The street can then be used for outdoor learning and recess. The Open Streets…
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How the new weed landscape is affecting NYC classrooms
Back when I was in high school, there was a stick that was used to keep the cafeteria door from locking shut so that students could go across the street to the park and smoke…
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Parents struggle to afford school expenses
With food prices hitting a record high last year, many families are going into 2023 with budgeting on the mind. It wouldn’t be life without the irony of the cost of almost everything rising just…
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Legislatures consider mental health day for students
When the news broke that snow days would be a thing of the past thanks to remote learning, I jokingly warned my youngest daughter’s principal that she’d be taking a mental day to play in…
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Education council elections
Elections for all New York City’s education councils are coming up this month. Community Education Councils (CECs) are made up of volunteer parents and community leaders in each school district while Citywide Education Councils focus…
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Free after school program tackles racial gap in homeownership
A free after school program is teaching students as young as nine years old about homeownership. The Black Housing Project is meant to help reverse a 20-year trend of declining Black homeownership. The number of…
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