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Sep 2024

‘Stop Evicting Children’: Rally Calls to End Shelter Deadlines for Migrants As New School Year Starts

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…

BySubeksha Poudel 0Comments

13

Jun 2024

Climate and Environment Government Housing and Homelessness

City Limits Earns Silurians Press Club Honors

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.

ByJeanmarie Evelly 0Comments

09

Apr 2024

CLARIFY Education

Apply Now: CLARIFY News Reporting Internship for NYC High School Students

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.

ByCity Limits 0Comments

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Apr 2024

Education Government Homelessness Housing and Homelessness

School Staffers in Shelters Are a Lifeline to NYC’s Homeless Families. Now Their Jobs Are at Risk.

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…

ByMichael Elsen-Rooney, Chalkbeat New York 0Comments

05

Feb 2024

Climate and Environment Education Housing and Homelessness In Depth Investigations

How Climate Change is Hitting NYC Public Schools

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.…

ByMariana Simões 2Comments

06

Dec 2023

Education Government Housing and Homelessness Opinion Transportation

Opinion: To Boost Attendance, Make School the Place to Be

“When schools take collective ‘ownership’ of chronically absent children and commit to finding out why they’re not in school, it makes a difference.”

ByLynette Guastaferro

ByJacobē Bell 0Comments

03

Nov 2023

Education Opinion

Opinion: Screened Admissions Policies Only Worsen Segregation in NYC Schools

“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…

ByGavin Healy 5Comments

01

Nov 2023

Education Homelessness Housing and Homelessness

1 in 9 NYC Public School Students Experienced Homelessness Last Year: Report

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,…

ByJeanmarie Evelly 0Comments

30

Oct 2023

Education Government Housing and Homelessness

Comptroller Calls for School Funding Changes to Accommodate Asylum Seeker Enrollments

The city’s education department insists the funding system is flexible, but the comptroller and education advocates worry some schools won’t get what they need if ‘massive numbers’ of new students…

ByJulian Roberts-Grmela 0Comments

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Sep 2023

Climate and Environment Education Opinion

Opinion: To Keep Schools Open, NYC Needs Climate-Resilient Buildings

“After Hurricane Sandy, my school closed for a week, while whole school student bodies had to be relocated across the city. More recently, my school’s basement and entire first floor…

ByLiat Olenick 0Comments

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