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CityViews: As City’s Sikhs Celebrate, They Hope for New Action to Stop Bullying

‘Chancellor Carranza must embrace a global multi-cultural curriculum that optimizes the study of groups that have been previously ignored. And our Sikh community must be included in such a curriculum.…

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CityViews: The New State Budget Fails to Protect Reproductive Healthcare

‘This was a missed opportunity to show real leadership–and it reflects poorly on our state’s progressive legacy.’

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CityViews: Youth Homeless Need More Than Shelter

‘We need more preparement programs like job training, counseling and basic skills computer program skills to be offered in order to help them achieve in school and at work.’

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CityViews: New Chancellor Should Launch a Charter School for Homeless Students

‘Homeless students have a unique set of educational, physical, and emotional needs which are not being addressed in any significant or systematic way.’

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CityViews: Done Right, Inwood Rezoning Could Be Good For Working Families

‘The City Council has a real opportunity here to hold developers to a higher standard.’

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CityViews: City’s Win in Court Won’t End the Need for Youth Shelters

‘We must figure out a path for a right to shelter for homeless youth. Absent that right, young people will continue without the survival resources they need.’

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CityViews: Council Can Foster Clean Water, Healthy Residents With Vote on Gowanus Tank

‘The City Council vote is the first of a series of land use decisions for the neighborhood and provides an opportunity to thoughtfully plan for the future of Gowanus.’

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CityViews: Trump’s Move to Send Liberians Home Causes Pain on Staten Island

‘Instead of showing sensitivity to the needs of my community—and an appreciation for the contributions we have made to this country—President Trump has chosen to attack us.’

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CityViews: Debate About NYC’s Commercial Waste Needs to Focus on Sound Data

‘It’s too easy to believe the worst about the waste services industry, to blame it for not recycling the wastes we all generate and throw away, and to look past…

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CityViews: Government Can Close the Parole-to-Shelter Pipeline

Rikers or a shelter? Neither is a good alternative. Not for community safety. Not for taxpayers. Not for anything. Surely there’s a better way.

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