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CityViews: Focusing on the Wrong Teacher Shortage Crisis in New York

‘The issue is more nuanced than the common portrayal of a statewide, across-the-board teacher shortage crisis. Any effective solution must begin with a more accurate understanding of the problem.’

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CityViews: Proposed Mega Towers an Affront to Lower East Side Residents

‘Building supertall finger buildings that allow high sales prices based on the views they let inhabitants own hurts neighborhoods by blocking light and air from other buildings and public streets.’

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CityViews: New Trump Rule for Immigrants Both Heartless and Counter-Productive

‘Make no mistake about it: If this proposal is implemented as proposed, it will increase poverty – and the worst symptoms of poverty such as hunger, homelessness, and early deaths…

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CityViews: UFT Defends its New Contract Deal with De Blasio

‘Teachers and other UFT professionals will be making up their own minds about how well the agreement represents their interests.’

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CityViews: New UFT Contract Will Ease Excesses of DOE’s Evaluation System

‘Sometimes teachers approach me in tears, describing things that happened in their observations that ought not to have happened.’

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CityViews: New Teachers’ Contract is a Missed Opportunity

‘At almost every turn, the contract benefits the Department of Education and does little to improve the lot of the vast majority of union members.’

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CityViews: As Trump Cracks Down, NYC Must Step Up on Immigrant Healthcare

‘It’s time for New York City to establish a full-scale immigrant health program, modeled on the success of ActionHealth and similar initiatives elsewhere.’

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CityViews: Punishment is a Contagion that Afflicts Us All

‘Punishment secured by violence is now a cultural fixture and an economic structure that victimizes all citizens. ‘

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CityViews: NYC Can Fight Climate Change at the Curbside

‘The de Blasio Administration has paused plans for expanding curbside organics collection to additional neighborhoods across the city. Given the inevitable and impending climate crisis before us, this is a…

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CityViews: De Blasio has no Comprehensive Plan to Rehouse the Homeless

‘Out of the 300,000 units of affordable housing in his plan, the mayor has committed only 15,000 units—five percent—for the homeless.’

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