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“A disciplinary removal represents a critical turning point in a student’s education, especially for those with disabilities. With proper advocacy, this moment can become an opportunity to reinvest in our…

ByRita Joseph

ByMichaela Shuchman

ByKayle Hope 0Comments

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Mar 2025

Education Opinion

Opinion: Competent Grads Need Emotional Strength, Too

“The skills that help students develop and restore relationships, improve decision-making, solve problems and communicate effectively are social emotional skills. Let’s teach them.”

ByRita Joseph

ByDavid Adams 0Comments

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Jan 2025

Education Government Immigration Resources

What You Need to Know: How to Get a 3-K or Pre-K Seat in NYC

All children in New York City aged 3 or 4 are eligible for 3-K and Pre-K, regardless of immigration status. The application period opened on Wednesday, Jan. 15, and closes…

ByDaniel Parra 0Comments

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Jan 2025

Education Housing and Homelessness Immigration

As Tent Shelter Shutters, What’s Next for the Children of Floyd Bennett Field?

Child advocates worry that the city’s school system does not efficiently track migrant students, including those who’ve been living at the tent shelter complex in East Brooklyn that’s closing this…

ByChristine Stoddard 1Comment

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Jan 2025

Education Government Opinion

Opinion: 2025 and New York’s Fight Against Child Hunger

“Proposals in Congress and public comments from the incoming administration give us every reason to fear that federal leaders will target programs that fight hunger for cuts.”

ByRachel Sabella 0Comments

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Dec 2024

Education Government Opinion

Opinion: Resolution or Regression? The Fight for LGBTQ+ Inclusion in Our Schools

“To achieve an equitable school system, we must unite and build a coalition stronger than those who would seek to frighten and silence us. More parents must step up to…

ByAmy Leipziger

ByCJ King 0Comments

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Nov 2024

Education Government Homelessness Housing and Homelessness

1 in 8 NYC Public School Students Experienced Homelessness Last Year. See How Many Were in Your District.

A record-high 146,733 students were living in the shelter system, doubled up, or staying in hotels, motels, or unsheltered, a new report finds. In some school districts, as many as…

ByPatrick Spauster 0Comments

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Nov 2024

Education Government Housing and Homelessness Opinion

Opinion: How NYC’s Housing Shortage Drives School Segregation & Disinvestment

“Rising unaffordability, worsened by a global pandemic, has created a cycle where many Black and brown New Yorkers, along with other marginalized groups, see leaving the city as their only option.”

ByNyah Berg 1Comment

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Oct 2024

Education Government Housing and Homelessness Land Use and Development

Q&A: High School Journalists Interview City Council Education Chair, Rita Joseph

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,…

ByCLARIFY News 0Comments

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Oct 2024

Education Government

CEO’s Sentencing is Latest Chapter in Complex History of NYC School Food

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…

ByJarrett Murphy 0Comments

Opinion: Students with Disabilities Deserve Fair Treatment, Not Suspensions

What You Need to Know: How to Get a 3-K or Pre-K Seat in NYC

As Tent Shelter Shutters, What’s Next for the Children of Floyd Bennett Field?

Opinion: 2025 and New York’s Fight Against Child Hunger

Opinion: Resolution or Regression? The Fight for LGBTQ+ Inclusion in Our Schools

1 in 8 NYC Public School Students Experienced Homelessness Last Year. See How Many Were in Your District.

Opinion: How NYC’s Housing Shortage Drives School Segregation & Disinvestment

Q&A: High School Journalists Interview City Council Education Chair, Rita Joseph

CEO’s Sentencing is Latest Chapter in Complex History of NYC School Food

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