Michael Elsen-Rooney, Chalkbeat
Posted inEducation
News of the new schools comes after the city Education Department killed a plan for an artificial intelligence-focused high school in Manhattan.
Posted inManhattan
NYC Yanks AI-Themed High School and Shelves Plans To Close UWS Middle Schools
Schools Chancellor Kamar Samuels is reversing course — for now — on four controversial proposals that drew intense backlash from parents.
Posted inImmigration
NYC Student Detained by ICE Returns to School After 10 Months
The jubilation of Dylan Lopez Contreras's return has been mixed with reminders of the looming threat of immigration enforcement facing him and other ELLIS students.
Posted inICE
High Schooler Detained by ICE Released After 10 Months
Contreras was the first known New York City public school student to be detained by ICE.
Posted inEducation, Homelessness
154,000 NYC Students Were Homeless Last School Year, Another Record High
The staggering total, which includes students who lived in shelters along with those doubled up with family or friends, is larger than the entire Dallas school system.
Posted inEducation, Immigration
‘We Can’t Function Out of Fear.’ Can This School for Immigrants Survive Under Trump?
Federal policy has reached into ELLIS Prep as never before, threatening the school’s ability to recruit new students, retain its current ones, and send its graduates to college.
Posted inImmigration
At Bronx School for Immigrants, One Teen Fights for an Education Under Trump
A student detained by ICE. Another losing her resolve to stay in the U.S. ELLIS Preparatory Academy is fighting for its students as Trump’s immigration enforcement closes in.
Posted inImmigration
Lawyers for Bronx High School Student Detained by ICE File Petition for Immediate Release
Lawyers press to get the Venezuelan student out of federal detention, backed by supporters who rallied at Education Department headquarters in a case that's drawing national attention to a wave of aggressive immigration arrests.
Posted inEducation
A Bronx High Schooler Showed Up for a Routine Immigration Court Date. ICE Was Waiting.
Dylan was arrested as part of a nationwide blitz redirecting asylum-seekers into fast-track deportation cases.
Posted inEducation
NYC School Safety Force Drops by Almost a Third
The declines have been driven by high attrition during the pandemic, slow hiring and a $37,000 annual starting salary.

