It's official: Mamdani picks Kamar Samuels, a Manhattan superintendent, for NYC schools chancellor. In the same breath, Mamdani eliminated a major uncertainty for Samuels: The mayor-elect will ask to retain control of the schools. (He campaigned on the opposite.) www.nydailynews.com/2025/12/31/m...

Mamdani's DOE chancellor announcement today will be in the same spot in Manhattan where Mamdani was initially going to have yesterday's appointment presser (which was moved on short notice). Begs the Q if yesterday's presser was initially going to be the chancellor announcement.

A source said the schools chancellor selection process has left some on the Mamdani transition disillusioned after lots of behind-the-scenes jockeying for the various different candidates. "That could have been done better," source said. w/ @caylabam.bsky.social www.nydailynews.com/2025/12/30/m...

if the mta sold F/M swap merch they'd be funded for the next decade

City Hall says "expect more news soon" on whether Adams will fill the two remaining mayoral vacancies on the PEP If he does, Mamdani will not be able appoint anyone to NYC's school board until June unless other mayoral appointees resign

Adams has appointed a former GOP councilman to NYC's schools oversight panel, as the mayor continues to stack boards related to housing, policing and now education before Mamdani takes office, w/ @c-sommerfeldt.bsky.social @josiestratman.bsky.social www.nydailynews.com/2025/12/15/a...

at least i will be able to console my Mets woes soon by losing $30,000 on the Moody Blues themed slot machine at Steve Cohen's Hard Rock Casino

The Day Care Council of New York, a membership org, is out with a new report on the state of the workforce: To achieve universal child care under Mamdani, DCC estimates NYC must hire 30,000+ workers. That's on top of the 5,000 needed every year to backfill vacancies. www.dccnyinc.org/wp-content/u...

ICYMI over weekend: Bill de Blasio has been actively urging Zohran Mamdani's team to appoint Meisha Porter, his old NYC schools chancellor, to the post. Mamdani's also considering keeping current Chancellor Melissa Aviles-Ramos. w/ @caylabam.bsky.social www.nydailynews.com/2025/12/07/n...

New: Before getting a multi-million dollar contract from Mayor Adams’ admin to install “panic buttons” in NYC public schools, Florida-based SOS Technologies hired the lobbying firm founded and operated by Frank Carone, Adams' longtime political confidant. www.nydailynews.com/2025/12/01/c...

Mamadou Mouctar Diallo, the Brooklyn transfer student whose federal immigration arrest sparked outrage and protest over the summer, has been granted asylum and released from detention, according to his lawyers. www.nydailynews.com/2025/12/01/n...

New York cellphone ban boosts student learning, social skills: ‘We hear increased laughter’

Stunning moment: Mamdani is asked if he still considers Trump a fascist. As he begins answering, Trump, while slapping Mamdani on the arm, interrupts: "Just say yes, I don't mind."

Trump takes off the table -- at least for now -- any cuts to federal funding for NYC. "I expect to be helping him, not hurting him, a big help because I want New York City to be great," he says. Trump even says he'd be "very, very comfortable" living in NYC under Mayor Mamdani.

Magnet schools can draw down $12M in prior year funds while NYC's legal battle w/ the Trump admin over gender policy continues www.nydailynews.com/2025/11/20/n...

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Fewer international students enroll at SUNY amid Trump administration crackdown

Principals + parents we spoke w/ at several schools that received exemptions hadn’t even heard about them, much less requested them.

New w/ @alexzimmerman.bsky.social: NYC declared victory on a major class size deadline: >60% of classes under the caps. What they didn’t mention: they only got there by quietly declaring 10,500 classes exempt. W/o those, DOE would’ve been at 59.5% compliance: www.chalkbeat.org/newyork/2025...

Fuleihan led de Blasio's budget office from 2014 thru 2018, funding universal pre-K. He returns to City Hall as Mamdani looks to launch universal child care:

NY is getting a $1.7M payout in the wake of the 2021 Illuminate hack, which compromised the personal data of approx. 1.7M current and former students from 750 schools statewide, per the NY AG's office: ag.ny.gov/press-releas...

"Mr. Mamdani’s strongest performance was with younger voters. He carried precincts where the median registered voter’s age was 45 or younger, beating Mr. Cuomo by 30 percentage points. That mirrored his dominance among young voters in the primary." www.nytimes.com/interactive/...

NYC asks principals to apply for next round of cash for smaller class sizes

What research says about Mamdani and Cuomo’s education proposals New York City, where I live, will elect a new mayor Tuesday, Nov. 4. The two front runners — state lawmaker Zohran Mamdani, the Democratic nominee, and former Gov. Andrew Cuomo, running as an independent — have largely ignored the…

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Breaking news: NYC school bus shutdown has been averted, for now. The remaining bus companies say they have agreed to sign an emergency extension. ICYMI, yellow bus service would’ve been discontinued for tens of thousands of students by Monday. Story TK

NYC public schools are suing the Trump administration after it slashed millions of federal dollars from local magnet programs, as part of a campaign against policies supporting transgender students. www.nydailynews.com/2025/10/16/n...

A SpongeBob lego set, an Uno deck, and an uptick in digital cameras. One month into a new statewide cellphone ban, NYC families and teachers reflect on how it's going: www.nydailynews.com/2025/10/11/n...

Mamdani, Gov. Hochul agree on universal child care. How to pay for it? Not so much https://gothamist.com/news/mamdani-gov-hochul-agree-on-universal-child-care-how-to-pay-for-it-not-so-much

The Daily News' @simko-bednarski.bsky.social is talking about the @nydnunion.bsky.social's fight for a fair contract with Alden Global Capital on the @majorityreport.bsky.social. Check it out live: www.youtube.com/watch?v=WYji...

Zohran Mamdani, the Democratic front-runner in the NYC mayoral race, said Wednesday he wants to double the size of a program for homeless students at public schools, if he is elected: www.nydailynews.com/2025/10/08/m...

The @nydnunion.bsky.social is outside the SLT gym on Flatbush Ave, where Private Equity raider Heath Freeman is an investor. Heath has money to fund gyms, marinas and restaurants, but not to give Gotham’s hometown reporters a fair and decent contract.

Mamdani plan to scale back NYC gifted and talented program reignites simmering

"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...