El Departamento de Educación y el Public Schools Athletic League (PSAL por sus siglas en inglés) están llamados a crear 200 nuevos equipos en los próximos dos años, como parte de un acuerdo sobre el acceso desigual a los deportes para los estudiantes negros y latinos.
Undocumented teens cannot apply to New York City’s Summer Youth Employment Program (SYEP), which advocates say offers a number of educational and economic benefits. “For some, it’s as simple as a summer job that provides them with extra income but for others, it can be the start of a lifelong career.”
Adolescentes indocumentados no pueden aplicar al Programa de Empleos para Jóvenes en el Verano (SYEP) de la ciudad de Nueva York, que según sus defensores ofrece una serie de beneficios educativos y económicos. “Para algunos, es tan simple como un trabajo de verano que les proporciona ingresos extra, pero para otros, puede ser el comienzo de una carrera de por vida”.
There were roughly 145,723 English language learners (ELL)—representing 13.3 percent of all students, including school-age and preschool students—in New York City public schools last year. Two years after the pandemic hit the city, there are several academic areas in which ELLs have not recovered.
Había unos 145.723 estudiantes de inglés (ELL) -que representan el 13,3 por ciento de todos los estudiantes, incluidos los de edad escolar y preescolar- en las escuelas públicas de la ciudad de Nueva York. Dos años después de que la pandemia afectara a la ciudad, hay varias áreas en las que los ELL no se han recuperado.
“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.”
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 the permit requests it received last year, up slightly from before the pandemic.
‘Immigrants are forced to live in a system with arbitrary restrictions that discourage us from advancing our education, obtaining a stable career, and providing for our families. All the while, our community is continuously relied upon as key drivers of the state’s economy.’
‘The regulations, billed as solving the problem, only institutionalize it and gut the statutory requirement of equivalent instruction. As currently proposed, the regulations need to be voted down when the State Board of Regents meets to approve them in the fall.’
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