The report interrogates the meaning of integration in a gentrifying city and sets out 12 policy recommendations related to housing, schools and infrastructure.
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City Youth Football Teams Unfazed By Study’s New Concussion Alarm
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A study finding that tackle football before age 12 creates life-long health risk doesn’t appear to be generating much soul-searching by private youth teams. And the public school system, whose players are only slightly older, won’t say whether it’s thinking of changes.
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A Healthy Dialogue, Except on Rezoning, at East Harlem Town Hall
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The mayor and residents engaged on a variety of topics, including NYCHA, youth issues and affordability.
Campaign 2017 Fact Check
Fact Check: Are City Schools Unsafe?
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There’s no one set of numbers to answer the question.
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Across the Bronx, Cops, Parents, Merchants and Kids Brace for the Inevitable: Summer’s End and a Return to School
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A team of reporters from the City University of New York’s Graduate School of Journalism fanned out across the borough last Wednesday to see how people in stores, parks, police precincts, museums, libraries and, yes, even schools were approaching the last full week of summer vacation and the year that loomed ahead.
EDUCATION
Video: Now that Mayoral Control is Settled, What Challenges Face NYC Schools?
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School leadership, budget and parental engagement are among the areas where the system needs work or help, three experts say.
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Video: Is Your Child’s Backpack Too Heavy?
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Health experts say kids shouldn’t carry loads weighing more than 15 percent of their body weight on their backs.
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De Blasio Unveils Push for Universal 3-K
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3-K for All in NYC”will be the largest such program in the nation—a ‘game-changer’ according to the mayor. But de Blasio warned that pulling it off would be harder than pre-K was.
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Confusion and Worry Over Whether School Seats Will Keep Up With De Blasio Rezonings
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Community advocates have been at odds with the city over whether the rezonings will create deeper needs for classroom seats than the city’s school-building plans accommodate.
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Policies Shift, Neighborhoods Change, but Elementary School Segregation Holds On
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Many argue that policy choices helped segregate our schools, and new and different policy choices are needed to integrate them.
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Chicken Pulled from NYC Schools Now Faces National Recall
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USDA said the health risk is ‘high.’ Meanwhile, pizza was pulled from school menus again.