Maintaining a safe and secure school environment is the shared responsibility of the entire school community, including school safety, pedagogical, non-pedagogical and custodial personnel, parents, and students. As part of a continuing effort to...

This regulation sets forth the standards and procedures by which students may be searched individually and by metal detectors.

This regulation contains disciplinary procedures for all students, whether in general or special education, grades K-12.

This regulation sets forth the procedures for granting safety transfers (1) when students are victims of a violent criminal offense on school property; and (2) in other situations, when it is determined that a student’s continued presence in the...

This workshop was presented on Tuesday, Nov. 9, 2010 by Kathleen Guilbert and Jeffrey Bernstein on the many opportunities that are offered by Career and Technical Education High Schools. The presentation, which was geared to middle school guidance...

Our findings confirm that charter schools enroll a smaller percentage of special education students than do district schools. But more importantly, charter schools do not enroll the same kind of special ed students as the district schools.

While research has shown the city is attracting more highly-qualified teachers, the attrition data show many of those teachers move on after a few years. The data cannot tell us where they go, but other reports suggest they leave to teach in suburban...

Despite the fact that New York’s charter school legislation prohibits discrimination in student admissions, it is now clear that New York City’s charter schools, as a group, are failing to serve a representative sample of the city’s public school...

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.