Department of Education

City Council members said Tuesday that the largest round of layoffs since the mayor took office could have been prevented.

The chancellor welcomed 254 AmeriCorps members at a ceremony at Hunter College on Friday.

Parents in northern TriBeCa want to send their children to the local P.S. 234, not P.S. 3 in Greenwich Village.

Laurence Harvey, 47, was sentenced to 25 years in prison for a brutal domestic sexual abuse case, prosecutors said Tuesday.

The Harbor School is hosting a regatta fundraiser Oct. 6, 2011.

Parents and students rallied Friday against the DOE's ongoing investigations into the high-achieving Chinatown school.

Principal Lisa Siegman, 58, of the West Village's Melser Charette School (P.S. 3) said that active learning techniques and a focus on the arts are her school's specialties.

There are 350 to 370 seats available in P.S. 1 and P.S. 126, a Department of Education official said.

The city wants to send TriBeCa children living above North Moore Street to the Greenwich Village's P.S. 3.

The city has nearly 1,000 more overcrowded classrooms this year than last year, the United Federation of Teachers said.

An accountant ranks elementary schools based on fourth grade English Language Arts test results.

Richard R. Green High School has moved out of its cramped Upper East Side location into a big, beautiful new home at 26 Broadway.

The city found space for the waitlisted TriBeCa children without having to relocate them to a school in Chinatown.

Mayor Michael Bloomberg and Schools Chancellor Dennis Walcott greeted students at the Spruce Street School on Sept. 8, 2011.

The Department of Education bought a building in Hell's Kitchen that will be used as a new campus for the Beacon School.