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ALBANY (TNS) — A year ago, Gov. Andrew M. Cuomo declared that New York was facing a state of emergency caused by gun violence. The administration bill...

BUFFALO — About 8% of New York’s public school students did not have a laptop or other device to use for remote learning in the first months of the sc...

ALBANY (TNS) — Gov. Andrew M. Cuomo’s proposed financial plan, which supplants state education aid with federal COVID-19 relief dollars, steers school...

President-elect Joe Biden’s nominee for education secretary, Miguel Cardona, will face a host of pandemic-related challenges that have disproportionat...

ALBANY (TNS) — The New York Board of Regents on Monday adopted New York’s first-ever K-12 learning standards for computer science and digital fluency....

ALBANY (TNS) — The state Education Department said Thursday it has created a website that is meant to help school systems follow a law which requires ...

FRANKLINVILLE — The Franklinville and Portville central school district superintendents said Tuesday that their districts had indeed submitted reopeni...

Gov. Andrew Cuomo’s announcement that 107 districts have not submitted a plan for in-person learning to state health authorities includes four local s...

SALAMANCA — The wait on how to reopen continues for the Salamanca City Central School District after submitting its plan to the state Education Depart...

ALBANY (TNS) — New York’s school districts must develop plans to reopen schools in the fall even though the state has not yet produced much-needed hea...

ALBANY (TNS) — The state Board of Regents will hold four regional meetings this month, all virtual, to discuss what it will take to reopen schools in ...

ROCHESTER (TNS) — As high schools and colleges across the country cancel their in-person graduation ceremonies this spring, some students are protesti...

HARRISBURG, Pa. (AP) — The number of confirmed coronavirus cases in Pennsylvania rose by 50% to more than 1,600 cases, while record numbers of state r...

ALBANY (TNS) — The State Education Department will return to the table with stakeholders who flooded the department with an “unprecedented” volume of ...

What does “health” and “fitness” mean to you? Is it simply based off of your weight and how much you can lift? What does endurance have to do with it?...

OLEAN — Olean City School District students, teachers and parents may take the long-awaited school climate survey as soon as next week. Officials anti...

OLEAN — The Olean City School District evaluating Archbishop Walsh Academy and Southern Tier Catholic School may not happen after all. A New York Stat...

Computer-based testing is set to resume today after glitches had halted the grades 3-8 English language arts assessments. The New York State Education...