New York City has got a math problem. Less than half of city kids passed the state Algebra 1 Regents exam this past school year, after the Department of Education introduced a controversial new ...

According to the 2023-2024 data, the statewide scores outperformed Staten Island scores — with the state performing at a ...

The state Education Department is replacing each school’s easily understood percentage of chronically absent students with a new “attendance index” that uses an algebraic equation to produce a ...

When my daughter started ninth grade at her New York City public high school, she was placed in algebra 1. She’d already passed it in eighth grade but, due to the pandemic, hadn’t taken the Regents ...