Tag Archives: Education Department (NYC)

School Absences Rise as Special Education Fails Students, Suit Says

New York City “regularly fails” to provide special education services to students with disabilities, leading to chronic absences, according to a class-action lawsuit filed Tuesday by the Legal Aid Society. The suit seeks to confront a pervasive problem in the city’s school system, the nation’s largest. Tens of thousands of …

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What to Know About New York City’s New Schools Chancellor

Melissa Aviles-Ramos, who will take over in January as the next chancellor of New York City’s public school system, is a longtime New York educator who oversaw the schools’ response to the arrival of tens of thousands of migrant children. Her swift appointment on Wednesday to lead the nation’s largest …

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David Banks, New York City’s Schools Chancellor, to Resign

David C. Banks, the chancellor of New York City’s public school system, said on Tuesday that he would resign from his post at the end of December. The announcement came just weeks after federal agents seized Mr. Banks’s phone as part of a bribery investigation involving his brothers and fiancée …

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