Coronavirus infection rates have remained low in the school system even as cases across the city rise, prompting officials to take a new reopening approach this month. But questions and uncertainty remain.
Councilman Mark Treyger says the city should tap into the resources it uses to run its senior meal delivery program to offer similar hot food options to students, saying his office has received “numerous complaints” about the current grab-and-go cold meals at schools.
‘While students face different kinds of obstacles in their previous schools, from mental health to family obligations or just a lack of support, they found trusting relationships and a new sense of purpose at their transfer schools.’
Although Afrocentric schools have been around since the 1970s, new ones have been popping up across the country in recent years, including in Brooklyn, as parents seek alternatives to the heavily-Eurocentric approach favored in mainstream schools.
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