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Megan McGibney

A native New Yorker, Megan McGibney writes about education, politics, and business. A 2008 graduate of the Craig Newmark Graduate School of Journalism at CUNY, she is also an adjunct lecturer at CUNY

Department of Education Technicalities Invalidate Election Results For Two Community Education Council Seats, Frustrating Parents

This election promised a more democratic approach to electing members of the “education policy advisory bodies”. However, technical issues have resulted in confusion for two of Brooklyn’s CECs.

Mark Treyger Looks Back On Eight Years In City Council Advocating For Students

“Our schools need to be community schools, and they need to meet the needs of the whole child. They’re not just a place for passing state exams and graduating on time. Our schools are so much more than that. Schools are lifelines, and students are not robots; they’re human beings.”

Should There Be A Permanent Remote School Option?

There are many kids for whom remote learning worked really well. Why should it not be offered going forward?

Advocates For Secular Education In Yeshivas Hope 'Mayor Adams Will be Different From Candidate Adams'

The next mayor of New York City, current Brooklyn Borough President Eric Adams, will be tasked to handle the many education issues facing the city’s 1.7 million schoolchildren. Advocates for secular studies hope that Mayor Adams will enforce the state education guidelines across all the schools, despite what

Non-profit Providers And Parents Question Prohibitive And Opaque Afterschool Fees

BELA - Bed-Stuy's All Girl Charter School Graduates Its Inaugural Class

“You need five people who play a different role in your life. I don’t believe in the concept of being self-made. None of us are self-made; we all need someone else. So that’s really what my speech was about.”

Parents on NYC School Survey: “There is a strong feeling that none of it matters.”

“My personal feelings on this survey,” she says, “Is that it really did not even begin to ask questions about remote learning, about complications with technology or remote classrooms."

Brooklyn’s Newest Teachers Are Determined To Help Their Students Succeed In A Post Pandemic World

“Reaching children through the screen requires a unique set of techniques,” Norcliffe told Bklyner. “The result was far richer than it was before we all began working together. The student-teachers brought additional facets to our classroom and the children have benefited greatly.”

“How would you feel if your community was being targeted by your neighbors?” Sunset Park’s M.S. 936 Rallies Against Anti-Asian Hate

Students gather at the schoolyard of Mafalda DiMango Complex of the Arts. Megan McGibney/BklynerTuesday afternoon saw nearly 35 students at M.S. 936 in Sunset Park [https://www.ms936artsoff3rd.org/] gather in its schoolyard for an afterschool rally to denounce anti-Asian hate. The event was created by the school’

School Safety Agents Upset Over Oversight Transfer from NYPD To DOE

Governor Andrew Cuomo talks to NYC School Safety officers who were deployed to hand out hand sanitizer, masks and gloves to subway riders during the COVID-19 Pandemic while the schools were not physically in session. Photo via Governor’s office.When school safety agent Quiann Simpkins of East Flatbush learned