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The city Department of Education this week released letter grades scoring each of the New York's public ele mentary and middle schools -- and it turns out that nearly every one of them is above average.

Your child's school is on the state's list of "persistently dangerous" schools, a warning of violence so severe, the state may have to transfer kids away. But at the same time, the city's rose-colored progress report card this week gives the same school top marks.

Double down! Bonus pay for city teachers in elementary and middle schools topped a staggering $27 million this past school year -- nearly double last year's payout.

The city's public school teachers have been chosen to participate in a selective, $2.6 million study that aims to find the most reliable methods for evaluating teachers.

More than 85 percent of the city's public elementary and middle schools earned A or B grades on report cards set for release today -- and only two schools were hit with F's, sources told...

NYU undergrads coughing up $50,000 a year to attend the Greenwich Village institution can earn college credit for playing air guitar and kickboxing this fall.

Cellphones in schools can be as dangerous as texting while driving, Mayor Bloomberg argued yesterday.

The number of New York City schools in good academic standing surged past 1,000 this year -- up to 1,088 from 987 last year.

Summer vacation officially ended for 50 kids yesterday -- the first in the city to return for the new school year. Just seven short weeks after classes let out in late June, St. Hope...

As Mayor Bloomberg took a victory lap the day after lawmakers extended his authority to run the city public schools, a key state senator was accused of holding up the bill unless City Hall fired the principal of a Queens school where her daughter is employed.