Some immigrants who are out of work during the pandemic are using the time to take English classes. ‘To me, this has been a relief in the middle of the sad and painful situation we are enduring,’ one such student tells El Diario.
Youth advocates and SYEP participants say cancelling the program this summer will be a financial hit to low-income youth who rely on those jobs.
College students say the switch to remote learning has been a hard adjustment. Some have considered taking a gap year if remote learning carries into future semesters, concerned with paying for standard tuition for online classes.
Student-residents at five CUNY campuses have been told to move out as soon as possible, as the state turns to college dorms for possible medical uses during the pandemic.
A leading anti-hunger advocate also joined Max & Murphy to talk about how SNAP benefits and food pantries can be reinforced to address COVID’s economic fallout.
Making sure students have laptops is important. But teachers and parents say access to WiFi, guides for how to navigate online learning, a clearer set of goals and new emotional support are also needed.
At P.S. 124, the Yung Wing School in Chinatown, where more than 90 percent of students are Asian, more than 50 – or 10 to 15 percent of students – missed school on March 10.
Thousands of New York City students spend at least two hours in transit to and from school each day, raising questions about how school quality and school distance combine to affect learners.
Although Afrocentric schools have been around since the 1970s, new ones have been popping up across the country in recent years, including in Brooklyn, as parents seek alternatives to the heavily-Eurocentric approach favored in mainstream schools.
A local parents group is trying to knock down a false rumor circulating among Chinese parents that students couldn’t wear face masks to school.
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