The number of children entering New York City public schools gifted programs has dropped by half this year.

More than 90,000 of New York City’s elementary school students — roughly 20 percent — missed at least a month of classes during the last school year.

This fall, schools in the New York area will test video game prototypes focusing on math and science.

New York City is beginning to measure the performance of thousands of elementary-school teachers based on how much their students improve on math and reading tests.

Grades for New York City schools are determined, in part, by a series of subjective decisions about which factors to use and how to weigh them.

The announcement that the school system must cut its budget has renewed a push to convince the teachers’ union to end the policy of keeping reserve teachers on the payroll.

A report finds that New York City could pay teachers without permanent placements more than $74 million to be substitutes or replacements.

The percentage of schools getting A’s in New York’s blunt grading system jumped to 38 percent from 23 percent.

The Miami-Dade County School Board and Rudy Crew, the superintendent who came promising to overhaul education as he did in New York City, agreed to part ways.

An elite undergraduate program of the City University of New York is being taught for the first time this fall in a majestic four-story brownstone on the Upper West Side.