Department of Education

The Department of Education declined a request to ease overcrowding at Kips Bay's P.S. 116, but parents vowed to keep fighting.

Police had to intervene in a student fight at the Richard R. Green High School at 26 Broadway, and 10 students were arrested.

The city cannot afford to spend $1 million a year renting a gym space for Millennium High School, School Construction Authority President Lorraine Grillo said.

Joshua Wiles, 27, a city teacher, was among 20 Occupy Wall Street protesters arrested during a march to Foley Square on Nov. 5, 2011.

The Peck Slip School, opening in 2015, will have 656 seats, rather than 476.

There were "some issues" with the online application for signing up kids to take the gifted and talented test on Friday, the deadline, but DOE officials said they would help shut out parents schedule a test time on Monday.  

A group of parents and teachers from P.S. 116 in Kips Bay have gained the support of local elected officials and community boards in their fight against overcrowding.

Families applying to the city's public school gifted and talented programs for the fall of 2012 must submit the first round of paperwork by Oct. 28, 2011.

A DOE official said the city may not force TriBeCa children to attend P.S. 3 in Greenwich Village as proposed.

The Department of Education ranked P.S. 137 on East Broadway among the 20 lowest-performing schools in the city.

The District 2 Community Education Council expressed concerns about the city's rezoning proposal on Oct. 17, 2011.

Brokers predict that proposed school rezoning in District 2, which covers TriBeCa, won't significantly affect condo prices, as some have feared.

At a community board meeting on Wednesday night, parents and teachers from P.S. 116 came out in force, asking for the board's help in their fight against overcrowding.

Upper East Side parents want a new middle school, but debate rages over whether it should be for gifted and talented children or general education.

CB1's Youth and Education Committee opposes the plan to cut P.S. 234's zone in half.