By NYC Schools Chancellor Fariña
Earlier this week, I announced that starting next school year, all New York City high schools will offer the SAT exam free to 11th-graders. Students will take the SAT during the school day in the spring.Continue reading
Fourteen years ago a terrible thing happened to our country, to our city, when terrorists attacked us on September 11. Continue reading
By Carmen Fariña NYC Schools Chancellor
I grew up speaking Spanish with my parents, who fled their native Spain during its Civil War and settled in Brooklyn. I didn’t know any English when I started kindergarten and the teacher marked me absent for six weeks because I didn’t understand her mangled pronunciation of my last name. Continue reading
