Zoned schools. Screened schools. Specialized high schools. Navigating the complex maze of the high school admission process can leave many students and families feeling overwhelmed and confused. … more

Last month, U.S. Rep. Adriano Espaillat received a threat from the gang Mara Salvatrucha, or MS-13 as its commonly known. He was the third threat on a New York elected official that week, … more

In 1963, a high school student named William Jefferson Clinton was photographed shaking hands with President John F. Kennedy. The White House visit was part of the Boys Nation senator program, and … more

Gov. Andrew Cuomo, state senate majority leader John Flanagan, Sen. Jeffrey Klein, and Assembly speaker Carl Heastie announced an agreement last week on the fiscal 2018 state budget that increases … more

On a recent Friday evening at the Riverdale-Yonkers Society for Ethical Culture, Rabbi Linda Shriner-Cahn and Manhattan College religion professor Mehnaz Afridi sat before worshipers at that … more

The Bronfman Fellowship selected Riverdalian Maayan Rosenfield for an immersive Israel program, stated an announcement from The Samuel Bronfman Foundation. The five-week summer program promotes the … more

Last week, U.N. Secretary General Ban Ki-moon came to Lehman College with an upbeat message, exhorting young audience members to believe in the power of their voices. more

John Evans and Thom Gencarelli walked in the Quad area of Manhattan College last week sharing one final conversation about the speech Evans was set to deliver at the school’s graduation … more

Lehman College has opened its new Virtual Reality and Training and Development Lab, offering students the chance to study the burgeoning technology inexpensively. It is the only such programming … more