Scoop: NYC public schools' artificial-intelligence policy is coming, and it's expected to ban the use of gen AI for students in 2-K thru 8th grade for this school year, according to official slides shared in briefings this afternoon
First in the Daily News: A Brooklyn yellow bus with six nonverbal children went missing for more than four hours last school year, raising alarm for their safety and prompting a report to the NYPD.
Some important context in the post-COVID era: Lots of changes to middle school admission screens.
Some schools dropped them in the pandemic and never brought them back. Others *did* return to screening, but now it’s based on grades and not other indicators like state test scores
Mayor Mamdani on WNYC says he read NHJ's article:
"It is an articulation in many ways of the systemic nature of the way that the public school system in our city failed her child
The sad truth is that she is not alone and that there are families across our city w similar stories"
New: NYC Public Schools is paying unionized principals and APs to bring more classrooms into compliance with the class size law
Principals may receive $500 this school year for each addt’l. compliant class, up to a max of $10,000, according to a memo the Daily News obtained