The report reveal disparities by gender and race, with women and people of color having higher levels of debt and facing more challenges in repaying it.
Education
Can Curbing CUNY’s Carbon Footprint Help Tackle Its Maintenance Problems?
Mariana Simões |
More than half of CUNY’s buildings are 50 years old or older. That’s a problem for the environment: older buildings tend to consume larger quantities of energy, generating more of the greenhouse gasses that lead to climate change.
Education
What Do NYC Youth Want for Earth Day? An End to Fossil Fuels.
Mariana Simões |
“My house gets flooded every single year,” 16-year old Diana Ramirez told City Limits, one of many New York City youth who took to the streets in the lead up to Earth Day to demand people in power stop funding fossil fuels. “The rising sea levels and flooding caused by climate change are affecting me heavily.”
Education
City’s Student Journalists Press for More School Newspapers
Jeanmarie Evelly |
Dozens of young New Yorkers gathered at City Hall Thursday calling for the city to expand support for journalism programs and student newspapers at its schools.
CITY VIEWS: OPINIONS and ANALYSIS
Opinion: New York City’s Young People Need Spaces of Their Own
Molly Delano |
“By engaging students in conducting research and advocacy in the process of creating and running programs, and maintaining the street itself, schools can turn Open School Streets into canvases for students to reimagine what their communities can and should look like.”
Economy
PÓDCAST: ¿Cómo ha cambiado DACA la vida de sus beneficiarios?
Daniel Parra |
Según el Servicio de Ciudadanía e Inmigración de Estados Unidos (USCIS por sus siglas en inglés), actualmente hay unos 544.690 beneficiarios activos de DACA en el país.
Education
School Staffers in Shelters Are a Lifeline to NYC’s Homeless Families. Now Their Jobs Are at Risk.
Michael Elsen-Rooney, Chalkbeat New York |
Roughly $12 million in funding that pays the salaries of 100 community coordinators working across the city’s network of homeless shelters is set to run dry this summer, leaving the fate of the staffers up in the air even as the city confronts record numbers of homeless kids.
Education
¿En qué estados se concentran la mayor cantidad de latinas con títulos universitarios en los Estados Unidos?
Daniel Parra |
Los estados que concentran el mayor número de latinas con título universitario son Vermont (54 por ciento), la capital del país Washington, D.C —conocida formalmente como el Distrito de Columbia— (53 por ciento) y Maine (41 por ciento). Los estados con más bajos porcentajes fueron Nevada (12 por ciento), Arkansas (12 por ciento) y Dakota del Norte (11 por ciento).
Bronx
NYC Gets $61 Million to Electrify School Buses. Is It Enough?
Mariana Simões |
Mayor Adams announced this week that the Big Apple is getting 180 new electric school buses. But the city’s fleet still has over 10,000 buses running on polluting fossil fuels.
Education
Jóvenes inmigrantes recién llegados enfrentan dificultades para matricularse en escuelas de Nueva York
Daniel Parra |
La ley federal protege los derechos a la educación de los niños y jóvenes menores de 21 años sin hogar y establece que los jóvenes adultos deben ser matriculados inmediatamente en la escuela, pero la ciudad no está cumpliendo este requisito, dicen los defensores.