The Community Schools Initiative could make real progress at addressing the complex social pressures that low-income students face. But if test scores determine the fate of those schools, a UFT activist argues, they are unlikely to succeed.
A very, very condensed version of the discussion at the City Council hearing on the first of the mayor’s two citywide zoning proposals.
Mayor de Blasio’s third state of the city address was quickly eclipsed by events at a Bronx public-housing development and a street in Manhattan.
Homeless people who age out of the shelters that serve teenagers face a difficult choice: enter the adult system in order to access the programs operated there’, or stay on the street where they might feel safer.
The January 10 conference on gentrification sponsored by CASA, the Bronx Documentary Center and City Limits looked at many of the questions around the most weighted word in local policy discussions today.
Yes, the fate of the U.S. could rest on the outcome in the Hawkeye State Monday night. But the fight for control of the New York State Senate and the future of Mayor de Blasio’s housing plans will also be shaped by events this week.
Mayor de Blasio went to Albany to fight for more state aid. Instead, upstate lawmakers wanted to talk about property taxes.
The program would handle gun cases to serve one basic underlying purpose: to speed up gun convictions. Many, however, might not equate “fast tracking” with justice or due process.
Of all those who have arched an eyebrow about the proposed carriage-horse deal, one group has a gripe relevant to the broader city: the parks advocates who are worried about the use of a public resource to support a private business.
The next installment in our new opinion series credits the mayor bold promises to reduce the risk of climate change but wonders whether his policies are keeping up.
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