The mayor-elect’s campaign was focused on pre-K, but some want a focus on day-care for younger kids. The city’s current system has empty seats but also faces overwhelming demand.
Critics have noted that combating income inequality is impossible for New York City to do alone. The latest from our Nation-City Limits blog.
With more rigorous standards for the high-school equivalency diplomas set to arrive in 2014—and get harder after that—people are racing to prep for and take the test now.
Whether they are victims of child abuse or lose a parent to murder, kids in some neighborhoods get treated differently when faced with tragedy. Readers and viewers must demand better.
In the first installation of a joint Nation-City Limits blogging project, we look at the enormous expectations facing the soon-to-be mayor.
Many think the former assemblyman and powerbroker is a creep. Some hail him as a hero. In Bushwick, his legacy—and the story of his downfall—are more complicated than either label suggests.
The Wolff-Alpert Chemical Company imported sand containing thorium from the Belgian Congo in the 1940s. Now the feds believe lingering radioactivity warrant making the former factory the third active New York City Superfund site.
Our investigation into New York City’s effort to award more contracts to minority- and women-owned business enterprises revealed shortcomings. What should the de Blasio administration do to correct them?
Eight years after the Bloomberg administration began an effort to get minority- and women-owned firms a bigger share of city contracts, targets have not been met. Part 1 of a three-part series.
In the city’s effort to diversify city contracting, the administration is limited by procurement rules, MWBE firms by their small size and the law itself by the fuzzy process behind the goals it’s set. Part II in our series.