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No, Mr. Mayor: The 'smaller class size' drive is STILL a gross disservice to city schoolchildren
Mayor Eric Adams joined teachers-union boss Mike Mulgrew to cheer the hiring of 3,700 new teachers to “give schools the ability to create smaller classes.�
City Hall claims it found extra cash in Adams' budget plan to pay for 3,700 new NYC teachers -- but math remains fuzzy
Show your work -- unless you're the Adams administration. Fuzzy math was all City Hall officials had to offer when pressed Thursday on how they'll pay the salaries for 3,700...
NYC caves on state class size law, will hire 3,700 new teachers: Mayor Adams
The city will give the already-bloated city Department of Education extra cash to hire 3,700 teachers across 750 public schools to help shrink classroom headcounts, the mayor said.
DOE failed to inspect 82% of NYC schools with known carcinogen asbestos: comptroller audit
The audit by the New York City Comptroller's Office obtained exclusively by The Post found that more than 82% of the city's 1,700 schools built with the known carcinogen were...
Long Island town begs Trump to help fight state's Native American logo ban: 'Where does it end?'
"Everything is being named for the people who were here before," local school-board President Kerry Wachter said of the district's name and logo that shows a non-cartoonish Native American chief...
NYC public schools accused of 'abhorrent' antisemitism after anti-Israel 'toolkit' is sent to parents, staff
The 'toolkit' breaks down how to mobilize pro-Palestine campaigns on social media, how to boycott and encourage divestment from pro-Israel organizations and encourages readers to print out Palestine yard signs...
Trump administration suspends ‘several dozenâ€?federal grants for Princeton â€?and university's president claims he doesn’t know whyÂ
The Ivy League's president notified students and faculty of the suspended research grants, which include funds from the Department of Energy, NASA and the Department of Defense.
Trump administration pausing $210 million in federal funding to Princeton University as it probes antisemitism on campus: reportÂ
Princeton was one of 60 colleges and universities that the Department of Education’s civil rights arm warned earlier this month could have federal funding taken away over antisemitic discrimination and...
Fresh fruit and veggie snacks to stay in NYC schools after memo said 'funding issue' would squash program
The city won't be ditching the fresh fruit and vegetable snacks given out in public schools, after inquiries last week by The Post.
Will any would-be mayor get real on school corruption �or is Trump NYC kids' only hope?
Here's a test for the mayoral candidates: Who will promise to crack down on corruption in the public schools by beefing up the Special Commissioner of Investigation?
Bikini-clad spring breakers bomb US citizenship questions �and critics are blasting the American education system as a failure
One young woman, who confessed she is majoring in elementary education, suggested the US won independence from Spain during the Revolutionary War, the video shows.
Columbia must 'comply' to regain $400M after university watered down anti-Israel crackdown: education secretary
Education Secretary Linda McMahon said that Columbia is not fast-tracked to regain the funding as the administration ensures it keeps its word.
Don’t let universities off so easy, the resistance got old and other commentary
Team Trump is “giving Columbia University the $400 million back in exchange for just a handful of basic concessions,�fumes National Review’s Jim Geraghty.
Linda McMahon reveals game plan to unwind US Department of Education �and finding ways to 'operate very efficiently'
The education secretary Sunday insisted there won’t be cuts to programs involving special education and student loans even if they end up administered by other departments.
Unhinged trans rights protester lunges at NYC conservative mom as education meeting goes off the rails
A Manhattan mom was charged at by a screaming trans rights protester at an education meeting this week, prompting the NYPD to escort her out of the building.
NYC ditches fresh fruit and veggie snacks in schools after federal cuts to USDA: 'A shame'
New York City is canning its fresh fruit and vegetable program in public schools for the rest of the year citing a "funding issue," the Post has learned.
Complaints against NYC school employees are skyrocketing �but agency in charge of investigating only probed 4%
The Special Commissioner of Investigation for city schools fielded an all-time record 11,874 complaints of alleged wrongdoing by educators and other school workers and vendors in 2024, but launched probes...
Education Department duties will be handled by these two agencies, Trump says
The Education Department managed more than $1.6 trillion in student loan debt, according to the White House.
Axing the Education Department: Fine for kids, rough on teachers unions
It’s good to see President Donald Trump starting the process of dismantling the worse-than-useless Department of Education bureaucracy.
Trump is moving to gut the Department of Education �here's what it does
President Trump is taking dramatic action Thursday to inch closer to fulfilling a nearly five-decade-old conservative dream of abolishing the Department of Education, which was created in 1979 under the...