Announcements

Chancellor Carranza Announces Ninth Annual Big Apple Awards Honoring Outstanding Teachers

Nov 6, 2020

Students, Families, School Staff, and Community Members Invited to Nominate Outstanding Teachers from Across New York City

Chancellor Carranza Delivers Message Of Gratitude During Visits Across The City On Last Day Of 2019-20 School Year

Jun 26, 2020

Chancellor Carranza Announces Record High Percentage Of Families Receiving Top Choice Pre-K Offer

May 13, 2020

90 percent of families receive offer to one of their top three choices; 77 percent receive first choice offer

Mayor de Blasio And Chancellor Carranza Announce "Let's Learn NYC" A New Television Program From WNET To Support Remote Learning

May 1, 2020

Beginning Monday, May 4, the new educational public television program for young learners will air weekdays at 11:00AM EST on THIRTEEN

Mayor de Blasio And Chancellor Carranza Announce Adjusted K=12 Citywide Grading Policy For 2019-20 School Year

May 1, 2020

Mayor de Blasio Chancellor Carranza and Commissioner Campion Announce Mental Health and Social Services for Department of Education Employees

Feb 21, 2020

Expanded NYC Employee Assistance Program will increase access to mental health and quality of life services for DOE employees and their families

Mayor de Blasio and Chancellor Carranza Celebrate Success on National Evaluation Systems of Pre-K for All

Feb 18, 2020

National program assessment systems find Pre-K for All leads to positive outcomes for students

Chancellor Carranza Launches the 14th Annual NYC School Survey

Feb 11, 2020

Students, parents, and staff members can complete the survey until March 31

Chancellor Carranza Celebrates Respect for All Week

Feb 10, 2020

Schools across New York City will participate in Respect for All Week, culminating in National No One Eats Alone Day

Mayor de Blasio and Chancellor Carranza Announce Paul Simon Music Fellows Program Benefitting NYC Public Schools' Music and Arts Curriculum

Feb 10, 2020

$1 million grant will fund a fellowship with 40 middle and high school music teachers over two years; additional fellows will be selected in subsequent years

Mayor de Blasio and Chancellor Carranza Announce Accelerated Expansion of 3-K for All

Feb 5, 2020

City will now serve 26,000 three-year-olds across all five boroughs in 2020-21 school year

Mayor de Blasio and Chancellor Carranza Announce Success of Community Schools: Increased Academic Outcomes Across City

Jan 28, 2020

Independent, three-year research report finds Community Schools significantly improve graduation rates and test scores; reduce chronic absenteeism and disciplinary incidents

Chancellor Carranza Celebrates College Awareness Day

Jan 10, 2020

Schools across New York City will participate in college- and career-themed events, building on City’s record-high college enrollment

Chancellor Carranza Launches Applications For Second Cohort Of Bronx Plan

Dec 18, 2019

Cohort One celebrates investments including $13 million in capital projects and 500 teachers receiving hard-to-staff differential

Chancellor Carranza Announces Record 447 Million Dollar Investment in High-Quality Arts Education

Dec 13, 2019

Annual Arts in Schools Report shows $14 million increase in arts education spending and record number of arts teachers

Chancellor Carranza Announces Substantial Gains In Student Reading Within First Two Years Of Universal Literacy Initiative

Dec 12, 2019

Year Two Universal Literacy Evaluation shows impacts of coaching on student literacy

Chancellor Carranza Announces 72 Percent Increase In Students Taking Computer Science Since Launch Of Computer Science For All

Dec 11, 2019

Record number of students received Computer Science education Record number of teachers trained through Computer Science for All initiative

Mayor de Blasio And Chancellor Carranza Announce 13 Million Dollar Grant To Strengthen Instruction For Multilingual Learners

Dec 11, 2019

Five-year grant by the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation facilitated through the Fund for Public Schools will help strengthen instruction for multilingual learners at 45 schools

Mayor de Blasio and Chancellor Carranza Rename Queens Elementary School to Honor Hector Figueroa

Dec 11, 2019

The Héctor Figueroa School opened at the start of the 2019-20 school year

Chancellor Carranza New York Yankees And Stonewall Inn Announce Second Annual Yankees-Stonewall Scholarship

Dec 11, 2019

Application is open until March 1, 2020, and scholarships will be awarded to one senior from each borough