Affordable Care Act
Understanding New York’s Public Hospitals Crisis
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Where did it come from? Is there a way out?
Death's Disparities: Health Inequality in New York City
Running for Change in Brownsville
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A group of women runners is piling up the miles and tearing down stereotypes.
Death's Disparities: Health Inequality in New York City
Residents’ Resiliency Offers Hope for Better Health in Brownsville
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Surveys show people in neighborhoods hit hard by health disparities are full of ideas of how to solve them—at a time when the healthcare system is embracing some experimentation. Will the brainstorming and bucks meet?
Death's Disparities: Health Inequality in New York City
Hospital Closures and Medicaid Shifts Took Toll on NYC’s Health
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For families living in poor neighborhoods, more hospital closings have put greater pressure on the surviving facilities, and they have also stretched the distances people have to travel to receive care.
Death's Disparities: Health Inequality in New York City
What Drives NYC’s Health Disparities?
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Diabetes and assaults, HIV and asthma, sicken or kill people in low-income areas at higher rates. Often, it isn’t that there’s no method or money to address the problem – it’s that we spend it in the wrong place.
Death's Disparities: Health Inequality in New York City
A Sense of Urgency About Health Disparities in the Trump Era
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The question isn’t whether economic alienation and housing pressure are as risky to health as smoking or poor diet. It’s whether the political will is there to do something about it.
EDUCATION
Some in Manhattan Want ‘Controlled Choice’ to Diversify Schools
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The proposal has supporters on the Upper West Side, as disparities in enrollment and admissions policies are under scrutiny citywide.
admissions
Manhattan Parents Press DOE on Middle-School Selection
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The effort to compel the DOE to release the information is part of a years’ long effort by the Community Education Council of District 2 to turn what is often an opaque, confusing and infuriating process into one of greater fairness and greater transparency, CEC members say.
EDUCATION
Lawsuit Claims Charter School Mistreats Special-Ed Kids
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The complaint by the parents of five Achievement First students also names the city and state departments of education.
Chancellor Carmen Farina
What’s Behind the Bill de Blasio-Eva Moskowitz Feud Over Charters
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The mayor says he’s trying to find space for charters. The charter pioneer says he isn’t. Beyond their conflicting claims is a complicated debate over whether public schools have room, and the role charters are supposed to play there.