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Op-ed: ‘Raise the Age’ Compromise Uses Teens as Bargaining Chips

A bid in the state legislature to raise the age for criminal responsibility in New York State may be coupled with a plan to build more prisons.

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Op-ed: NY’s Graduation Exams are Failing Our Students

The Regents system of exit exams makes New York about the toughest state in which to graduate high school. Nearly a quarter of students don’t graduate on time, a high…

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Op-Ed: Bratton’s Collaborative Policing Doesn’t Offer Real Reform

History shows that community policing funding is often rerouted to more repressive tactics, the authors write. Even when implemented, the approach asks police to do work for which they are…

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Op-ed: Rapid Rehousing No Silver Bullet Against Family Homelessness

The popular “housing first” approach to addressing homeless has a lot of support—but not a lot of success when it comes to keeping families out of shelters over the long…

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City’s Plan to Cut Literacy Funding is a Big Mistake

“There’s still time to get it right, and for the sake of the future of our city.”

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Note to TLC: Don’t Kill Community-Based Car Services

A representative of the livery-cab industry argues for the Taxi & Limousine Commission to reject proposed rules at its meeting this week because they do more harm than good for…

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CityViews: NYC Students’ Field Exams Fail the Logic Test

To prepare questions for future state exams, testing companies will soon administer so-called field tests to city students. But this op-ed asks: how are these no-pressure, no-prep exams a valid…

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State Senator: Citywide Bail Fund Would Help, Not Hinder, Courts

State Sen. Gustavo Rivera argues that low-income New Yorkers “deserve the same access to resources to navigate the justice system as middle-income and high-income residents.”

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Council’s NYPD Plan: Add Cops, Reduce Arrests, Avoid Real Changes

There’s fierce debate over a City Council proposal to decriminalize certain offenses. But this op-ed contends that neither side in the argument is talking about fundamental change to the way…

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A Call to Ban Landlords’ Non-Rent Fees to Tenants

Fees for appliances like washing machines or air conditioners, legal fees, and other miscellaneous charges are confusing to tenants, often unexplained or unjustified and above all unaffordable.

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