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“It is easy to see how mothers are affected by the prohibitively expensive costs of child care, but perhaps less so to understand it as a communal crisis.”

ByTalya Wolf 0Comments

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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

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Jun 2023

Economy Education Government Housing and Homelessness

Subsidized Child Care Pilot for Undocumented Families Renewed in City Budget Deal

The city pilot program called Promise NYC, which covered up to $700 a week in child care to undocumented children with low-income parents during the second half of 2023, will…

ByDaniel Parra 0Comments

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May 2023

Government Health Politics

New Baby Bonds Bill Seeks to Help Kids Who Lost Parents to COVID

In April 2022, THE CITY’s MISSING THEM project—along with Columbia Journalism Investigations, Type Investigations and City Limits—published a story that revealed that more than 8,600 New York City children have…

ByAnjali Tsui for THE CITY 0Comments

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Mar 2023

Government Justice Opinion

Opinion: Attorneys for Children in New York Are in Crisis

“Attorneys are being forced to resign not because they want to leave, but because they cannot provide for their own families if they stay. Offices that were once inundated with…

ByJudith Gerber

ByDawne Mitchell

ByKaren J. Freedman 0Comments

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May 2022

Government Health

1 in Every 200 NYC Children Have Lost a Parent or Caregiver to COVID. That’s Almost Twice the National Rate.

Black, Hispanic and Asian children in the city are around three times more likely to have lost a parent or caregiver compared to their white peers, a new analysis reveals.

ByFazil Khan, Columbia Journalism Investigations 0Comments

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Apr 2022

Education Government Politics

To Renew or Rebuild? Albany Considers Alternatives to Mayoral Control of NYC Schools

New York legislators have until June 30 to decide if they want to extend mayoral control again, and if so, for how long. If they choose not to extend, they…

ByJulian Roberts-Grmela 6Comments

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Aug 2019

Opinion

Opinion: It’s Vital for Immigrant Parents to Consider a Standby Guardian

‘It’s absolutely vital that immigrant parents consider making a plan now for the future care and custody of their children should something happen.’

ByRandye Retkin 3Comments

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Mar 2016

Uncategorized

CityViews: As Standardized Tests Loom, Improvements are Illusory

Hoping to head off parent opt-outs, education officials are hyping reforms like shorter tests and the removal of time limits. But those changes could create new problems without addressing the…

ByFred Smith 3Comments

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Nov 2015

Education

Some in Manhattan Want ‘Controlled Choice’ to Diversify Schools

The proposal has supporters on the Upper West Side, as disparities in enrollment and admissions policies are under scrutiny citywide.

ByRuth Ford 1Comment

Opinion: NYC Can Give the Perfect Gift This Mother’s Day—Investing in Universal Child Care