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As politicians quibble over schedules and temperate checks: parents, teachers, principals, custodians and children could learn from the City’s most recent attempt to better use the public space of streets.
Was the problem here really the process, or privilege?
‘Delaying school for 10 days without calling for adequate funding so that schools can meet the needs of this moment, it does nothing.’
The rates have fallen since their May highs, but the gap with Whites remains wide.
‘What we are witnessing on the UWS is a group proudly boasting their shared belief that their perceived safety and protection of property values matter more than the lives of others, and have always mattered more than the lives of others.’
According to a recent National Low Income Housing Coalition report, from 30 to 40 million renters could be at risk of eviction, including a million in New York.
Los defensores de los trabajadores de lavandería dicen que uno de cada cinco trabajadores recibe $ 10 o menos por hora, una violación de los requisitos de salario mínimo en la ciudad de Nueva York.
From school to school and district to district, differing infection rates and resource levels will make for disparate experiences this fall.
For the 10,000 students attending Polish Language Schools on the East Coast, remote learning in the Spring meant renewed connections to Poland. What lies ahead is uncertain.
Following a chaotic June 23 primary count in which more than 84,000 mail-in ballots were invalidated, some lawmakers are pushing for new options for voters who want to avoid polling places.