Cellphone Ban Is a Tale of Two City Schools
Hear the WNYC Radio coverage.Students at the Thomas Jefferson High School campus in East New York, Brooklyn, are familiar with the small white truck with the yellow Smart Dock logo parked right across...
View ArticleTo Ban or Not to Ban Cellphones? Mixed Signals
WNYCComments poured in following SchoolBook's report on cellphone use in the city's schools. During a WNYC radio segment on Thursday, listeners, including many SchoolBook users, debated the role...
View ArticleCouncil Members Urge Walcott to Lift Cellphone Ban
City Council members are asking Chancellor Dennis M. Walcott to reconsider the longstanding ban on cellphones in public schools. Forty-seven of the Council's 51 members signed a letter to Mr. Walcott...
View ArticleWhere Are the School Metal Detectors?
WNYC is looking at fairness in the placement of metal detectors in New York City public schools. Scores of metal detectors were placed in schools wracked by gang activity or other violence, often...
View ArticleMore Than 90,000 New York City Students Are Searched Before School
Every morning, more than 90,000 New York City public high school students are scanned by metal detectors as they arrive to school. Which schools have scanners is hard to pin down — the Department of...
View ArticleMetal Detectors Remain In Schools Despite Drop in Crime
This story is co-published with ProPublica.On the coldest morning New York City has seen this winter, a stream of teenage students hit a bottleneck at the front of a Brooklyn school building. They shed...
View ArticleAfter a Fatal Stabbing, Students and Parents Question a Bronx School's Safety
One day after a fatal stabbing in a Bronx school left one student dead, another in critical condition, and a third facing murder and manslaughter charges, students were back in the building. Schools...
View ArticleCity Council Demands School Metal Detector Data From NYPD
It's been over two years since the the New York City Council passed legislation requiring police officials to share the locations of metal detectors and random scanners in the city's public schools. To...
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