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The great school wars: A history of the New York City public schools (1975), a standard scholarly history online; Ravitch, Diane, and Joseph P. Viteritti, eds. City Schools: Lessons from New York (2000) Ravitch, Diane, ed. NYC schools under Bloomberg and Klein what parents, teachers and policymakers need to know (2009) essays by experts online
This is a list of public elementary schools in New York City. They are typically referred to as "PS number" (e.g., "PS 46", that is, "Public School 46"). Many PS numbers are ambiguous, being used by more than one school. The sections correspond to New York City DOE Regions.
New York City Department of Education (not BOCES) 907,595 Bronx Kings New York Queens Richmond: New York City New York City New York City New York Mills Union Free School District #4 517 Oneida: Oneida-Herkimer-Madison BOCES: Mohawk RIC Central Region Newark Central School District #1 1,949 Wayne: Ontario-Seneca-Yates-Cayuga-Wayne (Wayne-Finger ...
The district overlaps with Queens Community Boards 2, 5, 6, and 9, and with New York's 6th, 7th, 12th, and 14th congressional districts. It also overlaps with the 12th, 15th, and 16th districts of the New York State Senate, and with the 28th, 30th, 34th, 37th, 38th, and 39th districts of the New York State Assembly. [5]
The vestry continued to operate the school in the Bloomingdale area until a law was enacted November 19, 1824 which barred church schools from receiving public school funding. On May 22, 1826, the Public School Society of New York [2] acquired it; and, in July 1827, the Society paid $250 for a 100x100 foot tract at 82nd Street between 10th ...
New York City public schools will now observe the Diwali holiday, Mayor Eric Adams announced at a news conference Thursday.
On June 30, 2002, Mayor Bloomberg secured authority over the schools from the New York State legislature, which began the era of "mayoral control" over the city schools. The New York Supreme Court elaborates: [4] By chapter 91 of the Laws of 2002, the Education Law was amended so as to radically restructure the governance of the school district ...
As of 1997 the City of New York pays the Pelham school district to provide educational services for a section of 35 houses in the Bronx located between Pelham and Pelham Bay Park and separated from the remainder of the borough; the city has done so since 1948 because the New York City Public Schools buses may not be insured if they leave the New York City limits, which they must do in order to ...