Education

ust hours after the Trump White House announced on Tuesday that it would move to rescind protections for young undocumented immigrants, New York City politicians, religious leaders and educators filled City Hall to pledge support for “Dreamers” who...

On a sweltering morning in July, Sonny Perdue, the newly minted secretary of agriculture, strode across the stage of a convention hall here packed with 7,000 members of the School Nutrition Association, who had gathered for their annual conference.

To ring in the new school year, Chancellor Betty Rosa picked a seemingly strange school to visit: Success Academy Bronx 2.

They are the schools Mayor de Blasio doesn’t mention. At 32 city elementary and middle schools, the average English-math proficiency rate on state exams has not exceeded 10 percent of students for four years in a row.