In the country’s largest school system, which serves nearly 900,000 meals a day, keeping the cafeterias stocked with food is a complex business. The investigative news website City Limits examines the city’s contracts for getting food to schools, and how these delivery methods can affect what students eat.

The writer/producer of Frontline’s film “Dropout Nation” talks about what it takes to keep students in high school. Frontline spent a semester inside Sharpstown High School in Houston, Texas, a once-notorious “dropout factory” to document students in crisis and the teachers, counselors, and principal struggling to get them to graduation day.

Gov. Andrew M. Cuomo is weighing whether to sign a bill on special education that opponents argue would give families more power to send their children to religious schools at taxpayers’ expense.

UPDATED | In a deal reached in the final days of the session in Albany, legislators agreed to a system that will allow parents to see the evaluations of their children’s current teachers, but the public will be allowed to see only evaluation information with teachers’ names redacted.

There are an estimated 1.3 million people immigrating to the United States each year. Many are children, and most are poor. In Queens, almost half the residents were born outside the U.S. A Columbia journalism school student provides a multimedia report on how one middle school student is making the transition.

A teacher’s aide in New York City is caught between the justice system and the New York City Department of Education since a grand jury on Monday declined to indict him on child sexual abuse charges.

A third-grade teacher at a Harlem public school was arrested Wednesday on charges of sexually abusing an 8-year-old girl who goes to the school, a law enforcement official said.

The “Carousel” production brought many “firsts” to the Frank Sinatra School of the Arts in Long Island City, Queens. The arts high school with more than 700 students had staged musicals before, but this was the first one with lighting and set designers from outside the school. Somehow the show always manages to go on, a Columbia journalism student reports.

Five years ago, a teacher at the Bronx Adult Learning Center on East Tremont Avenue donated a Weber grand piano to the program. Two years later, the principal, Amoye Neblett, hired movers to take it to his home in Brooklyn. The city’s Conflicts of Interest Board announced on Monday that Mr. Neblett has returned the piano, but it cost him his job and a $1,000 fine.

A plan to put 150 fifth graders from Harlem Success Academy 2 and 3 into the building that houses P.S. 208 has pitted supporters of the magnet school against advocates of the charter school, two Columbia journalism students report.