List: New York City's largest leases of the second half of 2022

CrainsNewYork.com (Education) 2/2 11:45P https://www.crainsnewyork.com/co

The deals are ranked by square footage

Charter School Expansion Faces Tough Fight in New York

NYTimes.com (Education) 2/2 8:52A Troy Closson

Gov. Kathy Hochul wants to allow more charter schools to open in New York City. But as the public school system loses students, the effort faces strong political headwinds.

Lower Lab Values YOU: Responsibility

PS 77 | The Lower Lab School 2/2 6:01A Ana Kukaj

Dear Lower Lab Families, As you may know, last month we celebrated Responsibility (to Others). As part of this celebration our students decorated 375 bears that were donated to our school by Bear Givers. This past Wednesday, January 25th Sandy,...

Education Firms That Serve Hasidic Schools Are Barred Amid Fraud Inquiry

NYTimes.com (Education) 2/1 10:00P Brian M. Rosenthal and Eliza Sha

New York City education officials will block payments for some companies that have billed the government to provide special education, primarily for students in yeshivas.

Art with Ms. Michelle

PS 77 | The Lower Lab School 1/31 3:16P Lower Lab Teacher

February 1, 2023 Greeting to All. Looking forward to our wonderful month of February filled with many warm and beautiful colors such as crimson, scarlet, burgundy, magenta and dazzling cherry. Stay...

Second Grade Happenings ~ February

PS 77 | The Lower Lab School 1/31 10:06A Lower Lab Teacher

Second Grade Happenings~ February Some celebratory moments: Math: Students learned how to organize data. They also learned how to create and interpret a variety of graphs, including bar graphs, pictographs, and line plots to represent, describe,...

Everything we know about New York City’s casino proposals

CrainsNewYork.com (Education) 1/31 7:27A Nick Garber

From Hudson Yards to Willets Point, these are the leading contenders

Migrants could be moving into the world’s tallest Holiday Inn

CrainsNewYork.com (Education) 1/31 6:00A Natalie Sachmechi

A bankruptcy judge granted the hotel's owner permission to make a deal with New York City Health + Hospitals to move asylum seekers into the inn's 492 rooms

With state budget season looming, providers call for Medicaid reimbursement rate increase

CrainsNewYork.com (Education) 1/25 11:30P Jacqueline Neber

Plus: NoMad health care software firm raises $75M Series B Partnership for New York City taps Albert Bourla as board co-chair Soho baby formula maker acquires two facilities in more than $50M investment

Google’s New York City workforce to shrink by nearly 900

CrainsNewYork.com (Education) 1/25 8:05A Cara Eisenpress

About 7% of of the 12,000 laid-off workers are local

Partnership Fund for New York City taps Bourla as board co-chair

CrainsNewYork.com (Education) 1/25 6:19A Jacqueline Neber

The Pfizer executive will work alongside Rob Speyer, CEO of real estate developer Tishman Speyer

Norm Fruchter, Champion of Equal Access to Education, Dies at 85

NYTimes.com (Education) 1/12 10:24A Sam Roberts

A lawsuit he helped initiate to change how the state allocates aid to localities reaped a bonanza for New York City schools.

A Note from Principal

PS 77 | The Lower Lab School 1/12 9:15A Ana Kukaj

Yesterday all Lower Lab students took part in an assembly celebrating their work with Lower Lab Values. It was fun and empowering! We targeted the idea of responsibility to others, what it means, what it feels like to give back and how to bring...

A Cleaner New York? Technology Points the Way

CrainsNewYork.com (Education) 1/9 8:13A https://www.crainsnewyork.com/cr

New York City generates 12,000 tons of waste every day—or two pounds for every New Yorker. That’s a lot to clean up. And any resident will tell you there’s room for improvement. The city can tackle this complexity with a geographic approach that...

Smart Steps Toward More Equitable, Greener Housing

CrainsNewYork.com (Education) 1/9 8:13A https://www.crainsnewyork.com/cr

Living in New York is expensive. That is, perhaps, the understatement of the century. But while some of New York’s leaders like Ed Koch and Bill De Blasio have made major efforts to improve affordable housing opportunities in this densely...