“We must reject efforts to roll back Raise the Age and stop scapegoating children and youth for the decades-long failure of government to invest equitably in them and their communities in the first place.”
After nearly 40 years in operation, The Partnership for the Homeless on Monday became the Partnership to End Homelessness. “We very much believe that homelessness is solvable and should be solved, given that it especially hurts women and children of color in our city,” the group’s CEO said of the change.
The DOE and the Public Schools Athletic League (PSAL) are required to launch 200 new teams in the next two years, part of a settlement over disparate access to sports for Black and Latino students. The change comes at time of increasing competition for sports fields and courts: The city turned down a quarter of…
“Los inmigrantes están forzados a vivir en un sistema con restricciones arbitrarias que nos impiden avanzar nuestra educación, de obtener una carrera estable, y proveer para nuestras familias. Mientras tanto, nuestra comunidad es el conductor clave para la economía estatal.”