This memo, dated Dec. 13, 2002, details the Department of Education's policy regarding the city's Extended Military Benefits Package.

‘Hunger in Our Schools: Share Our Strength’s Teachers Report’ finds connecting kids to breakfast is vital for academic achievement.

This regulation governs the provision of per session services by pedagogic employees. It explains when per session may be served and sets forth the process to be followed for approval of per session hours.

The proposals crafted here try to maintain what has worked – a very direct tie between the DOE and mayor — and at the same time correct what has not worked, by ensuring checks and balances throughout the school system.

New York City hired more new teachers in 2011-12 than it had for the previous two school years, as the city allowed the Dept. of Education to replace departing teachers for the first time since the 2008 recession. But the rate of attrition has also...