City Hall says the extended day/year schedule will set the “standard” for 2-K programs going forward.
(It’s possible some providers will keep operating on a traditional school day schedule.)
As NYC launches free child care for 2-year-olds, Mayor Mamdani will open most of the first 2,000 seats in programs that operate on a full-day year-round schedule, he’ll announce at a press conference later today in Brooklyn.
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Education officials also promised a full, public inventory of all AI tools used in NYC classrooms.
This is expected to be published in June.
Multiple resources are still in the works, like forthcoming guidance on how teachers can design instruction that "ensures AI supports—rather than substitutes for—student thinking."
Grade-level specific guidance (elem., middle + high school) is still under development, too.
There are still many unknowns, like when students (not teachers or principals) can use AI.
This guidance says they can for "research, exploration and creative projects" — but that schools should proceed with caution.
AI *cannot* be used to make decisions about students, like their grades, discipline, placement in advanced classes, promotion/graduation, etc. No using AI for surveillance or mental health counseling, and student data can't be used to train AI models.
Teachers and school administrators can use the new technology in lesson + unit planning, drafting emails and scheduling.
It may also be helpful for translation services and accessibility, with some guardrails about how it's used for students with disabilities or English learners.
AI guidance for NYC public schools is out and, as the DN reported yesterday, includes a "traffic-light" system to help teachers and principals make informed decisions about AI in education.
Here's what it says — and doesn't say:
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NEW: More than 11,000. That’s how many US citizen children have a parent who has been detained under Trump, our new data analysis shows. When Doris Flores was separated from her four-month-old who was still breastfeeding, she turned to her pastor for help.
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Samuels also announced a "comprehensive professional learning plan" to encourage teachers to use "culturally responsive" resources, like the Black Studies curriculum.
This comes in the wake of the recent hot mic controversy on the Upper West Side:
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At the City Council's NYC Public Schools budget hearing, Chancellor Kamar Samuels announces AI guidance coming tomorrow:
"Our work to leverage technology responsibly continues with our foundational AI guidance, which will be released tomorrow and will include opportunities for community input."
Dylan Lopez Contreras, the first known NYC student detained by federal immigration authorities as part of President Trump’s mass deportation agenda, has been released after nearly a year in custody
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Chancellor Kamar Samuels is moving ahead with a broader plan to close or relocate UWS schools — as miffed parents question why they haven’t been afforded a second chance.
Gov. Hochul said that she provided Border Czar Tom Homan today w/ "the names of a number of students who are in detention that we would like to see released."
The Daily News asked the governor's office for that list, but they declined to share it.
The NYPD has released body-cam footage of officers encountering DHS agents after last week’s federal immigration arrest of Columbia U student Ellie Aghayeva
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NYC Schools Chancellor Kamar Samuels picked his cabinet today, w/ a seasoned education official as his top deputy and major changes to the way superintendents are overseen:
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Former Schools Chancellor Melissa Aviles-Ramos has taken a job as a high-ranking advisor at HMH, a company that does millions of dollars in city business each year as one of three literacy curriculum providers NYC schools were required to use.
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The New York Daily News welcomes letters to the editor, unless of course those letters are critical of the layoffs at the New York Daily News.
They won't print those letters, it seems.
Calls to remove a south Brooklyn superintendent are mounting after her husband allegedly posed as someone else on social media to attack a union rep for local teachers.
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Today's the deadline to apply for 3K + preK.
More than 75,000 families had submitted apps as of early this week — thousands short of last year's total.
We ask: How much will Mamdani’s best efforts to get the word out move the needle on the # of families who apply?
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What the @nytimes.com fails to mention (again) is that the reason for the font change (which extends beyond the wood - aka "page 1" - to the entirety of the paper) is Alden Capital's decision to lay off our entire print production staff.
After a Trump-Mamdani mtg today, Ellie Aghayeva has been released.
Mamdani also asked to release Leqaa Kordia, a Columbia protester.
(He also backed Mahmoud Khalil, Mohsen Mahdawi, and Yunseo Chung — all who have faced deportation threats over the last year.)
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(Deleted a retweet of Manhattan Borough President Brad Hoylman-Sigal after he updated his post)
DHS agents entered a residence hall and detained a Columbia University student this morning, after making "misrepresentations" to gain entry, President Claire Shipman said.
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It would be great, too, if the @nytimes.com media desk would spend even half the effort it took to write this story on providing coverage of this month's layoffs at the Daily News.
