Tag: NYSED

School districts have used more than 400 special meetings—votes held outside the regular May and November election days—since 2011 to approve nearly $9 billion in spending, including about $2 billion last year.  Read More

Led by a massive decline in New York City, enrollment in New York’s public schools continued falling last year and has sunk to its lowest level since the mid-1950s.  Read More

After petitioning for the release of ELA and math exam data for students in grades 3-8, the Empire Center has published the results. Read More

Commissioner of Education Betty Rosa just set a new date, November 4, for releasing the statewide results of math and English exams. Read More

A state agency is refusing to release exam results revealing the nature and extent of Covid learning loss among New York schoolchildren. Read More

New York bureaucrats are ditching standards for what children in public schools should learn. Why are they increasing their imposition on yeshivas? Read More

The legality and appropriateness of the New York State Education Department’s attempt to delay access to important student performance metrics is being challenged in a formal appeal of an Empire Center Freedom of Information Law (FOIL) request Read More