At a time when New Yorkers are flooding the city’s food pantries and soup kitchens at record levels, the public schools’ free breakfast program has some of the lowest attendance…
In Chicago, they’ve figured out a way to wire the whole city with high-speed Internet connections, and it won’t cost government a penny. Could New York do the same?
Tough graduation standards are prompting teens to seek another way out of high school: the GED. But as kids crowd adult ed classrooms, can local groups succeed where schools couldn’t?
