A new fee is proposed for jobs lasting over eight hours and for last-minute assignments. The pay rate for officers working security in schools would also increase under the new measure. EDISON – ...

There is a longstanding debate about whether traditional grading—letter grades based on a student’s content knowledge, classroom behavior, and extra credit—appropriately measures student success.

A parent who has a child at a Clarkstown middle school says an extra credit assignment tried to sway students’ political beliefs. The four-page extra credit assignment was given to a sixth grade ...