Education

The start of the 2019-2020 school year began Thursday for the 1.1 million students in the New York City public school system.

Lawmakers gathered at City Hall on Wednesday to call on Mayor Bill de Blasio to reject a proposal by an influential advisory group to scrap the city?s Talented and Gifted program.

On May 19, Cristina and Maria Villon Bustillo accomplished the dream their parents had for them 11 years ago when they arrived in America. The identical twins, who had immigrated from Ecuador, graduated from St. John's University.

The non-profit group College and Community Fellowship is working t help formerly imprisoned women seek college degrees.

A $90M lawsuit against the New York City Department of Education alleges that longtime leaders were demoted solely because they were white.

In an effort to level the playing field for all college applicants regardless of their socioeconomic background, the College Board plans to assign an ?adversity score? to each student taking the SAT.

A City Council hearing on school segregation kicked off on a fiery note with students who said they're tired of officials lack of action on integration. Chancellor Richard Carranza testified before the education committee about the steps his department is taking to integrate schools.

Roberto Torres, a.k.a. Sabor Latino, is a Jamaica, Queens, native, a social services worker at a nearby school, a prolific author (he is about to release his fourth book), and a rap artist riffing a message of positivity. He presents his hip hop in a way you rarely hear it and writing with a message, so personal and so positive that it can change one's world.

Whether or not you want to admit it, technology dominates some many of our lives. Kids are glued to TV screens, video games and phones, but teachers say that is not always a bad thing. Kahoot! is a game-based learning and trivia platform that's taking over classrooms across the country and around the world.

The Institute for Retired Professionals at the New School is a 55-year-old program in which members not only participate as students but as teachers, too.

Wednesday marked the first day of the 2018?2019 school year for New York City public school students. The nation's largest school system enrolls 1.1 million students and employs more than 79,000 teachers in nearly 1,800 schools. Schools Chancellor Richard Carranza, who started his tenure in April, visited M.S. 137 in the Ozone Park section of Queens at about 6:30 a.m. He spoke with Fox 5 News about the year ahead.

Since taking the job in March, New York City Schools Chancellor Richard Carranza has made diversifying public schools his top priority. Now as he prepares to begin his first full school year, his ambitious ideas will be put to the test.

New York University is offering free tuition for all of its medical students. Tuition had been set at about $55,000 for the coming year.

Walmart learned that more than most other things its associates wanted to obtain a college education on their way to a college degree. And so Walmart partnered with institutions to offer Walmart employees classes toward business and/or supply chain management degrees.