Department of Education

31 students are waitlisted for kindergarten at P.S. 78, the only elementary school in the neighborhood.

Under pressure, the Department of Education withdrew plans to slash the G&T program in P.S. 122.

The Department of Education found PCB leaks in the building's light fixtures last year.

The principal of the troubled Bed-Stuy school has helped institute a range of new programs.

There were 2,361 kids placed on a waitlist for fall 2013, down slightly from last year.

Gifted and talented school applications are due April 19.

Daniel Reilly, 36, was arrested on April 8 and chaged with rape and endangering the welfare of a child.

Parents met with DOE officials Monday to voice concerns over a plan to cut the school's gifted program.

Dos Puentes Elementary School will share a Wadsworth Avenue building with P.S. 132 in September.

Central Park East II will expand into a middle school for the 2014-2015 school year.

The School Construction Authority's promised "replacement community garden" is a field of asphalt.

P.S. 40 in Bed-Stuy is one of the neighborhood's best schools, but Leonie Hibbert is pushing for more.

Hunters Point Community Middle School will use the nearby waterfront to teach about the environment.

Four new schools in Bed-Stuy and Ocean Hill will take up space in existing facilities, the city said.

Suspensions are down dramatically after a policy change made schools more lenient.