‘Twenty-five years after killing it, New York is considering bringing back tuition assistance for people in prison. Evidence indicates it will reduce recidivism, save taxpayer money and make communities safer.’
CITY VIEWS: OPINIONS and ANALYSIS
Opinion: Segregating Kids with Dyslexia is a Bad Idea
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‘Marginalizing children with dyslexia and creating a safety valve for the DOE to claim it has solved the problem will not dent the reading deficits that plague our schools.’
CITY VIEWS: OPINIONS and ANALYSIS
Opinion: Permanent Safety, Not Short-Term Fixes, Is What Domestic Violence Survivors Need
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‘To end this cycle and significantly reduce family homelessness caused by domestic violence, we urge the city to move beyond short-term fixes.’
CITY VIEWS: OPINIONS and ANALYSIS
Opinion: Sex Trafficking Happens Here, and to All Kinds of Kids
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‘If we consider only the most salacious and sensationalized facets of sex trafficking, we neglect its most common victims,’
CITY VIEWS: OPINIONS and ANALYSIS
Opinion: The Devastating Impact of NYC’s Failure to Deal With Dyslexia
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‘So it’s not just about kids getting a fair and appropriate education. It’s about saving them – and us – the consequences of failure.’
CITY VIEWS: OPINIONS and ANALYSIS
Opinion: Why We Should Not Send People with Substance Use Disorders to Jail
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‘The misinformed notion that jailing people with substance use disorders is the best way to ensure they ‘get clean’ has harmful and even deadly consequences.’
CITY VIEWS: OPINIONS and ANALYSIS
Opinion: NYC’s Borough Jails Will Make Incarceration a Local Problem
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‘Individuals not currently concerned with our large jail population may start to care when they see what 3,300 really looks like.’
CITY VIEWS: OPINIONS and ANALYSIS
Opinion: Starving the CUNY System Erodes an Engine for Equality
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‘The cumulative consequences of systematic underfunding – the long-term weathering of CUNY – mark the erosion of New York’s commitments to democracy, racial justice, integration, freedom of expression, and association.’
CITY VIEWS: OPINIONS and ANALYSIS
Opinion: What’s Happening to Retail on the Upper East Side?
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‘This district’s retail character, the driver of so much energy and life, is in decay. ‘
CITY VIEWS: OPINIONS and ANALYSIS
Opinion: Stop Sunnyside Yards! Reparative City Building Now!
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‘Development of Sunnyside Yards is emblematic of a broader and fraught city-building process, which is churning communities across the city and displacing working-class communities while building new neighborhoods for wealthier, whiter households.’