Filing for Bankruptcy in 2024: What You Need to Know

Filing for Bankruptcy in 2024: What You Need to Know

When thinking of filing for bankruptcy, understanding the bankruptcy process and the available options can be challenging. This article provides general information, not legal advice, to simplify things for you.  What Is Bankruptcy? “What is bankruptcy?” This is a common question when facing financial challenges. Life happens, and factors such as illness, divorce, foreclosure, or […]

Attempts to Improve Education in the Caribbean are a Scam

Attempts to Improve Education in the Caribbean are a Scam

By Ajonté Josiah Education has been at the forefront of the news in recent weeks, with Governments across the Caribbean engaging in various agreements to improve the state of education in the region. The Caribbean Examinations Council (CXC) is the education cornerstone for most English-speaking Caribbean. For many Caribbean countries, CXC provides the primary exams students take […]

Do the Math: As the Budget Ax Falls, NYC Schools Face Major New Costs

Do the Math: As the Budget Ax Falls, NYC Schools Face Major New Costs

By George Sweeting | November 21, 2023 | Center for New York City Affairs Immediate budget cuts; impending higher costs: New York City’s public schools face a seemingly inexorable financial squeeze. Last week, Mayor Eric Adams released a first-quarter modification to the current (Fiscal Year 2024) budget, as required by the City Charter. It included […]

Early Childhood Literacy Manual Launched

Early Childhood Literacy Manual Launched

The Eastern Caribbean’s first Universal Emergent Literacy program has been officially launched. The manual, titled Early Pages Program comes after a three-year pilot in Grenada and Nevis, and will immediately begin reaching some of the region’s most vulnerable students through dozens of preschools serving children ages 3-5. An initiative of Hands Across the Sea, the […]

Transcript: Mayor Adams Delivers Introductory Remarks at DOE Chancellor Banks’ State of Our Schools Address

Transcript: Mayor Adams Delivers Introductory Remarks at DOE Chancellor Banks’ State of Our Schools Address

Principal Grecian Harrison: Good morning. Well, I’ll try that one more time: good morning! That sounds better. I feed off of energy. So, I want to say welcome to the Historic Boys & Girls High School Campus in the heart of Bedford‑Stuyvesant Brooklyn. It is indeed a pleasure to have each and every one of you […]

NYC Public Schools Tested 1,500 Students for Risk of Dyslexia After Mayor Adams Push

NYC Public Schools Tested 1,500 Students for Risk of Dyslexia After Mayor Adams Push

By Yoav Gonen and Alex Zimmerman, Chalkbeat | SEP 14, 2023 Students in 133 schools that serve about 63,000 students were given secondary screeners during the last school year that identify students who are at risk of dyslexia or other reading challenges. The effort, while relatively small, is set to be expanded. Mayor Eric Adams […]

Haitian Electeds And Staff Meet With CCCADI Leadership on Art, Culture, and Civic Engagement

Haitian Electeds And Staff Meet With CCCADI Leadership on Art, Culture, and Civic Engagement

(L-R) Juvanie Piquant of Council Member Rita Joseph’s office, Sabine Blaizin, Director of Programs at CCCADI, Council Member Mercedes Narcisse, Melody Capote, Executive Director of CCCDAI in front of CCCADI’s timeline. Photo by Biv Sanchez. New York, NY – As Haitian Heritage Month comes to a close, the Caribbean Cultural Center African Diaspora Institute (CCCADI) […]

The Responsibilities of Parents and the Rights of Autistic Children

The Responsibilities of Parents and the Rights of Autistic Children

By Linda Nwoke  Alexa is a bright and imaginative seven-year-old girl living in her creative world. A world that includes her and shuts most people out, characterized by complex social interactions even with her immediate family members. Alexa finds it challenging to make friends and does not understand social cues, like facial expressions and body […]

NY Schools Most Segregated in the US; Black and Brown Kids Should Attend Charter Schools

NY Schools Most Segregated in the US; Black and Brown Kids Should Attend Charter Schools

By Linda Nwoke Editorial credit: Darwin Brandis / Shutterstock.com In 2014, the Civil Rights Project at UCLA reported that New York State was the most segregated state in the nation for Black students. The problem persists. In an updated analysis using 2018 data, a new report released in June 2022 from the Civil Rights Project finds that […]

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