By Bruce Cory and Nicole Mader There’s a longstanding debate about why so few Black and Hispanic students are admitted to New York City’s specialized high schools, including Stuyvesant, Bronx Science, and Brooklyn Tech. They accounted for fewer than 9% of students offered admissions at eight specialized schools for the current school year; that’s down […]
Mayor de Blasio tours the Kingsbridge Armory which is being used as a temporary food distribution center during the Covid-19 crisis. – Bronx, New York/USA April 18, 2020 NEW YORK— Mayor de Blasio recently announced a partnership with Open Society Foundations to establish the New York City COVID-19 Immigrant Emergency Relief program, reaffirming the City’s […]
United States Census Postcard, Letter and Online Screen to complete the 2020 Census. – Detroit, Michigan USA, April 7, 2020 (Shutterstock) Mary Lehman Held, University of Tennessee The United States might not be able to get information about more than 10 million people in the 2020 census. That’s the number of undocumented immigrants living in […]
The United Federation of Teachers has collected these photos and posted them to a webpage launched to honor members who have died from presumed coronavirus complications. Photo: United Federation of Teachers By Alex Zimmerman, Chalkbeat Additional Reporting By Christina Veiga, THE CITY The number of education department staffers who have died as a result of the […]