Top Schools, the Rich and the Tutor Myth New York City’s elite specialized high schools are full of children who passed the test with the help of a $25 book. Share ...

Some New York City parents are pulling their kids out of elite prep schools — and even hiring relocation experts to recommend rural towns — to up their chances of Ivy League admission.

Here's what they had to say: 1."I don't live in the US, but I do go to one of the de facto 'rich kids schools' in my country. I could tell you a million stories, but here is my favorite: Someone ...

School Choice. In New York, Rich Disabled Kids Get the City to Send ... That's up from $103.6 million in the 2009–2010 school year. The city spent $55,049 on tuition for each of the 4,435 ...

Some urban public schools are so bad that parents fear more than a sub-par education if their kids go there. My local district school, Sarah J. Hale--since shut down by the city for failing its ...

As Michelle Chen wrote for The Nation, the city’s system of school choice “encourages privileged parents to move to higher-performing, affluent, and often disproportionately white districts ...

Schools offering in-person teaching are seeing a rise in applications — even when tuition is $50,000 a year or more. The Frederick Gunn School, a boarding school in Washington, Conn., has seen ...

But as the city has attracted more wealth, housing prices have soared alongside the skyscrapers, and young families have found staying put with school-age children more difficult.

A decade ago, while visiting the private Calvert School in North Baltimore, Gertrude Williams found just what she was looking for inside orange boxes stacked in a storage room. Each contained a ...

City tops spending average The Chicago Public Schools system, where 85 percent of students are poor, spent $9,758 per child in 2005, compared with the $8,676 statewide average for K-12 districts.

Rich schools vs poor schools: Comparing a suburban private school with an inner-city one provides an extreme example of college counseling disparities. ... (They also spend time volunteering at ...