Justice
Key Court Rulings On Criminal Defense, Foster Care
Jarrett Murphy |
The state’s high court allowed foster children to pursue claims that they were denied services and boosted a case challenging the state’s indigent defense system.
Bronx
MTA Budget Cuts Will Hit Disabled
Emily Keller |
But even as the transit system reduces some services, it continues other efforts to improve accessibility.
Homelessness
Survey Says: You Trust Us
Kelly Virella |
City Limits named one of New York’s most trusted news sources
Media
NYC Web World Regroups After FCC Defeat
Kelly Virella |
A court ruling barring the FCC from regulating broadband has local organizations plotting how to give the agency new teeth.
ARTS and CULTURE
Mentally Ill On Hold After Ruling
Joscelyn Jurich |
The state’s appeal of a federal court decision on housing for the mentally ill has residents and advocates in limbo.
Bronx
Getting From Here To There
Emily Keller |
With deep transit cuts in the works, activists and officials prescribe new ways to travel around the city.
Bronx
Council's Angry Over Housing, But That Doesn't Pay The Rent
Eileen Markey |
After receiving prized Section 8 vouchers, then losing them, about 1,000 ill-sheltered grantees are still without a housing plan.
Education
Shaping Success
Helen Zelon |
Students in the Harlem Children’s Zone achieve the results they do, Canada says, because they invest more: They invest more actual time in the classroom, with a far longer school day and a school year that begins in September and ends in early August. All Promise Academy students are in school about 60 percent longer than average public school students. Struggling students can spend twice as many hours in school as the average kid—in class and in tutoring or in small-group before- and after-school instruction. HCZ’s corporate and school leaders say they hold each child to high standards and expect teachers to do “whatever it takes” to achieve success. And the charters invest more money per child per year—nearly $19,000 in 2008—than the $14,525 the city spends on children who attend general-education programs in traditional open-enrollment public schools.The financial investment starts well before the first formal day of kindergarten.
Citywide
Getting The Lead Out: Paint Still A Concern
Jarrett Murphy |
The city’s efforts have greatly reduced lead poisoning among children. But those who still suffer say officials must tighten enforcement if they’re serious about ending the problem.
ARTS and CULTURE
The City's Latest Hirings and Retirings
Nekoro Gomes |
A new state education leader takes the helm, as more New Yorkers head to Washington and the Pratt Center gets a new director.
