"Roberts was named superintendent in 2023. A district profile states he was born to immigrant parents from Guyana and grew up in Brooklyn, New York." -- www.iowapublicradio.org/ipr-news/202...

An immigration judge has denied the asylum claim of Dylan Lopez Contreras, the Bronx transfer student who last spring became the first-known local school kid to be swept up in President Trump’s immigration crackdown: www.nydailynews.com/2025/09/24/n...

The Trump administration is set to withhold millions of dollars from NYC magnet schools, after the U.S.'s largest school district defied a deadline to agree to policy changes for transgender students: www.nydailynews.com/2025/09/24/c...

Even as Mayor Adams echoes the Trump admin in vowing to rescind NYC schools' gender neutral bathroom policies, Adams' Education Department sent a letter last week questioning the legitimacy of Trump's threat to pull funding over the issue. w/ @caylabam.bsky.social www.nydailynews.com/2025/09/22/n...

1/3 NYC students were considered chronically absent last school year. It’s a far cry from where observers hoped city schools would have rebounded to by now, years after COVID school closures. (City Hall, meanwhile, called it a “historic success.”) www.nydailynews.com/2025/09/17/o...

NYC schools to distribute 350,000 free Chromebooks

NYC students not getting enough help to learn English: comptroller’s audit

Zohran Mamdani at I.S. 5 in Elmhurst, Queens w/ UFT for the first day of school — and start of the new phone ban: “I'm fortunate when I went to school in this city, it was before the peak of social media… bc to be young in this moment is to feel a relentless amount of pressure.”

As NYC public schools get ready to implement a statewide cellphone ban, cyberbullying has risen sharply since the pandemic forced young people onto their devices, according to a student survey. www.nydailynews.com/2025/08/05/m...

Scarsdale High School grad Yeonsoo Go released from ICE detention

"The delays mean children may go without the transportation, physical therapy, counseling, and tutoring services they’re entitled to — or their parents may be forced to pay out of their own pocket" via @alexzimmerman.bsky.social www.chalkbeat.org/newyork/2025...

"For parents whose children were at the lead positive centers, two of which are run by nonprofits in conjunction with New York City Public Schools, the lack of an emergency plan for childcare at those centers closed for abatement left them frustrated and even led one mom to lose her job."

NYC students are showing early signs of progress in reading after the Adams administration overhauled how the subject is taught in public schools. Reading scores on quick, periodic assessments known as “screeners” increased by 2.5 points over a year: www.nydailynews.com/2025/07/02/n...

Schools across NYC are celebrating graduation this week. At ELLIS Prep, which still has a student in ICE detention, national immigration politics loomed large over the ceremony: www.chalkbeat.org/newyork/2025...

New from me, @caylabam.bsky.social and Emma Seiwell — sources tell us that 100-120 ICE detainees are currently held at MDC Brooklyn, notorious for hellish conditions. Props to the Miami Herald, which was 1st to report that MDC was chosen to hold ICE detainees. www.nydailynews.com/2025/06/25/i...

JUST IN: "Tonight was not our night," Cuomo says before adding that he has called Mamdani to congratulate him.

Enormous cheers as Lander announces Cuomo’s concession. “Wr are not gonna let anyone divide muslim new yorkers and jewish new yorkers” Lander says.

At Brad Lander's election night party in Brooklyn, the energy is that of a victory, not at all a defeat. "We are on a path to win a city that all New Yorkers can afford and where everyone belongs," Lander says.

Adams called it part of "the beauty of America" that he could refuse to call on Chris — for more than three months now. "Other countries, you don't have that luxury," he said of the freedom of the press, "other countries you're dragged away if you do something wrong."

Mayor Adams might have let our senior City Hall reporter @c-sommerfeldt.bsky.social in the room today — a week after banning him for asking a question — but he doubled down on and refused to call on Chris. This even after two other reporters yielded their time to Chris.

“What matters is that by singling him out and banning him from his news conferences, Adams is sending a dangerous message to other reporters who write tough stories about him.”

Magistrate Judge Hammer: I order Mr. Khalil released upon his counsel turning in his passport in Jena. The government will provide a certified copy of the passport, barring international travel except for self-deportation. Travel limited to NY and MI, NJ & LA

A federal judge in New Jersey on Friday said he would order Palestinian Columbia University graduate Mahmoud Khalil released on bail more than three months into his detention, w/ @mollycranenewman.bsky.social www.nydailynews.com/2025/06/20/n...

New York Daily News reporter @c-sommerfeldt.bsky.social was barred from future news conferences by Mayor Eric Adams, who accused him of being "disrespectful" after Sommerfeldt on June 17 called out in the press conference to ask Adams a question:

In a head-spinning pair of announcements on Wednesday, the National Institutes of Health told staff that it would lift its monthslong freeze on all research funding to Columbia University — then reversed its reversal, emails show. New from me: www.chronicle.com/article/colu...

“You’re calling out a lot, Chris, stop calling out!” the mayor said in a sing-song tone. “You must have done that in school.” Adams then turned to his staff. “Listen, if he does that again, he’s not to come into our conferences.”

A reporter from The City had overheard one agent say to another minutes before Lander’s arrest, “Do you want to arrest the Comptroller?” www.thecity.nyc/2025/06/17/b...

We hand-delivered this to the Mayor's staff moments ago. Chris was doing his job. The only disrespect was coming from the podium.

Mayor Adams hasn't taken question from Daily News reporter @c-sommerfeldt.bsky.social for months. So Chris called out to get his attention at today's press conference and the mayor tells security to bar him from future press conferences. Hard to not see that as by design

"Make sure security knows he is not allowed back into this room." - the mayor bars @c-sommerfeldt.bsky.social from the briefing room after he asks questions without raising his hand. It's really the only way Chris can get a question in, given how rarely the mayor takes questions from him.

Inbox: Maud Maron and two other CEC members settled their lawsuit against BK parent leaders who they say excluded them from public mtgs CEC 14 prez Tajh Sutton and her VP agreed to not discriminate against viewpoints and pay $17.91 in damages (1st A was ratified in 1791) www.ifs.org/news/nyc-par...

A New York City immigration judge has reinstated a Bronx public school student’s bid for asylum after the Trump administration moved to dismiss his case and fast-track his deportation, his lawyers said Monday. www.nydailynews.com/2025/06/16/n...

New York City’s powerful teachers union announced Friday it won’t endorse in the Democratic mayoral primary, citing no clear consensus among United Federation of Teachers members this election cycle w/ @josiestratman.bsky.social www.nydailynews.com/2025/06/13/u...

A tumultuous day in Mahmoud Khalil’s bid for freedom ended late Friday with a NJ federal judge refusing to force the Trump administration to release him. His wife had hoped he’d be home in time for his first Father’s Day on Sunday. @mollycranenewman.bsky.social www.nydailynews.com/2025/06/13/m...

Federal judge says Trump cannot deport or detain Columbia student Mahmoud Khalil

Over 120 former @nydailynews.com journalists have signed a new petition demanding that our bosses at New York’s Hometown Paper recognize our value and agree to a fair contract: nyguild.org/post/id-121-...

CUNY chancellor to testify before House education committee on antisemitism

The letter to the NYC Department of Investigation was the latest escalation by the City Council as it scrutinizes the mayor’s immigration policies and his support of some of the Trump administration’s deportation efforts. DOI is required to carry out reviews requested by the council.

State and local lawmakers shared on social media Friday afternoon that a junior at Grover Cleveland High School in Ridgewood, Queens, was arrested earlier this week by ICE www.nydailynews.com/2025/06/06/i...

Also new in budget docs this week: the DOE is earmarking closer to $449 million for school-led class size reduction plans.

The Adams admin said Wed. that all NYC public schools will receive at least as much $$ for the fall as they got earlier this school year New budget docs show 450+ schools will benefit from this policy (that otherwise may have lost per-pupil $$ bc of enrollment ⬇️) www.nydailynews.com/2025/06/04/n...

If you've been following the story of Dylan, the Bronx HS student detained by ICE, I hope you'll read this follow-up. I followed his school, ELLIS Prep, as they navigated the aftermath — rallying around Dylan while managing the fears spreading to other students. www.chalkbeat.org/newyork/2025...

Trump targeting of Mahmoud Khalil baseless, has caused extreme psychological harm: lawyers

Hour by hour, outside the ICE check in office today, for @thecity.nyc www.thecity.nyc/2025/06/04/i...

They say the admin has damaged his reputation and severely undermined his ability to pursue a career in international diplomacy and human rights "by baselessly identifying him as a risk to the foreign policy of the United States, marking him and his family as targets for harassment and notoriety."

Mahmoud Khalil's lawyers are seeking to submit an expert declaration under seal describing the extreme psychological harm he's endured from the "shock of unjust arrest and continued detention and family separation," which they say "will inevitably severely worsen absent release."

Dylan, the Bronx student detained by ICE, got a medical diagnosis over the weekend that his lawyers say requires his immediate release, per court docs. (He was being tested for cancer or Crohn's disease.) But Dylan doesn't know about his diagnosis — his lawyers haven't been able to reach him:

Federal judge says effort to deport Mahmoud Khalil likely unconstitutional

Hundreds of NYC high school students walked out of class yesterday to protest the Trump admin's policies on higher ed and immigration. “We need to let it be known that, if the adults aren’t going to do something about it, then we will,” a sophomore said. www.nydailynews.com/2025/05/27/n...

After taking some questions about this public school student who was detained by ICE, he refuses to respond to a question about leveraging his relationships with the Trump administration to help that student (www.chalkbeat.org/newyork/2025...)