The New York Times

The Specialized High School Admissions Test is the sole admissions criterion for the city’s eight specialized high schools. Technical difficulties sent students home with promises of an opportunity to retake it.

Some professional and college sports teams were stuck on runways, or opting to pile into buses, ahead of games this weekend that are now uncertain.

Kamar Samuels, the city schools chancellor, asked for an independent review days after a paraprofessional was fired following his arrest in the stabbing death of Katie Suarez.

From India to France, the implicit meritocratic bargain that underwrote stable societies by providing advancement to new generations is breaking down.

Great Public Schools New York will enter the charter school battle in New York City with money from Michael R. Bloomberg and be led by a former adviser to Andrew M. Cuomo.

At Tougaloo College, supporters danced and wept and over Scott Colom’s victory. He will be Mississippi’s first Black U.S. senator since the Reconstruction era.

Readers respond to John McWhorter’s essay about “lived experience” and the arts. Also: Susan Collins; the Democrats’ challenge; A.I. in the classroom.

Across the United States, the number of children in public education is dropping, leading many districts to question whether or where to close schools.

Trump administration officials had accused the district of allowing boys on girls’ teams, which they said violated a ban on sex discrimination in schools.

The number of children without permanent homes dropped from a record high, but advocates warned that the crisis had probably not eased.

In the South Bronx, the first program of its kind offers the same classes as any high school. Only these classes are dope.