Councilmember Joseph answered questions from CLARIFY student reporters about her priorities for the school system, DOE leadership, addressing the homelessness crisis facing over 100,000 students, school lunches, cell phone bans, and more.
Legal problems have plagued the city’s massive school foods system, but still haven’t derailed a decades-long local campaign to use New York City cafeterias to fight hunger, improve nutrition, reduce social inequality and support learning.
As of Aug. 18, the city had issued 60-day deadlines to 12,689 families with children, including 18,348 children under 18, officials said. Critics say frequent shelter moves are disruptive to kids’ ability to learn.
City Limits received Merit Awards in environmental journalism and feature photography, and also collaborated on one of the projects that earned the top investigative reporting prize.
CLARIFY (The City Limits Accountability Reporting Initiative for Youth) program is accepting applications from New York City high school students for its summer 2024 and fall 2024 sessions.
Adi Talwar
A CLARIFY participant conducts an interview by phone in the summer of 2022.
CLARIFY (The City Limits Accountability Reporting Initiative for Youth) program is accepting applications from New York City high school students for its summer 2024 and fall 2024 sessions.
This program offers training in public service reporting and news writing. Participants will collaborate in teams, and under the guidance of an instructor, receive training to report on a public service story. Student work has in the past been published in City Limits. See some of our recent reporting interns’ work here.
Eligibility Requirements:
Fall Program Details:
APPLICATION DEADLINES:
The deadlines for the summer and fall 2024 sessions have passed. Applicants who applied for fall will hear back with a decision soon.
You may apply for both programs. Due to the limited number of spots, students can only participate in one of the sessions.
This is a highly competitive program and we can only accept a select few candidates due to the limited size. If we are unable to offer you a reporting internship, we encourage you to reapply for future sessions, and to continue your pursuit of journalism. If you have questions about CLARIFY or the application process, please contact info@clarifynews.org.
Roughly $12 million in funding that pays the salaries of 100 community coordinators working across the city’s network of homeless shelters is set to run dry this summer, leaving the fate of the staffers up in the air even as the city confronts record numbers of homeless kids.
More than a quarter of the city’s public school buildings are currently at risk from extreme stormwater flooding, according to an analysis by the Comptroller’s Office shared with City Limits. Teachers, students and environmental groups are pushing for more weather-resilient schools.
“When schools take collective ‘ownership’ of chronically absent children and commit to finding out why they’re not in school, it makes a difference.”
“It’s easy to pretend to be colorblind when your head is buried in the sand. It’s easy to say you know what the community wants when your ‘community’ is meticulously curated.”
A record-high of 119,320 students during the 2022-2023 school year were living in the shelter system, “doubled up” in the housing of others or staying in hotels, motels or unsheltered, a new analysis found. The numbers mark the eighth consecutive year that the city’s population of homeless students surpassed 100,000.
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