NEW YORK -- One week after magazine maven Cathie Black’s abrupt departure from her post as New York City schools chancellor, it’s official -- Mayo...

NEW YORK -- First the city, now the state. Just hours after the news broke that New York City Schools Chancellor Cathie Black was stepping down, t...

The prospect for the granting of a waiver to Cathie Black so she can serve as New York City's school chancellor may have dimmed a bit in the last two days.

One would imagine that if one were seeking to fill the most important school superintendency in the US, some person could be found who was both a brilliant manager and had some experience in education.

In an unintended consequence of Race to the Top, as states seek to implement its highly prescriptive set of favored policies, charter school autonomy may become an innocent victim.

This past week the New York State Education Department released the scores of proficiency tests in math and English. The "proficiency" level of students in New York has plummeted through the floor.

After a wave of negative press, New York State Education Commissioner David Steiner is vowing that what happened to homeless Brooklyn high school seni...

This week, as the deadline approached for filing New York's application for $700 million in federal Race to the Top Dollars, the New York State Legislature did nothing. That's right, nothing.

The governor's inaction -- perhaps disinterest -- in whether New York has a shot at hundreds of millions of dollars in federal education aid underscores the current vacuum on educational issues.