‘Essential government-funded youth programs could be repurposed to transform the current potpourri of citywide services into a comprehensive public-private partnership focused on creating a rigorous academic tutoring system, with education and youth workers at the core.’
‘Fifty-five percent of city public schools didn’t have a music educator, even before the COVID-19 pandemic…one aspect of that rebuilding must be integrating music as a core subject in the curriculum and ensuring all city schools have certified music educators.’
The city offer prioritized COVID-19 testing for DOE staff and students at 34 sites across the city. But only for seven days.
‘I have come to see police, surveillance and harsh punitive measures in schools as a way to disproportionately target vulnerable students, primarily Black and Latino, and not to protect and support us as many suggest.’
From school to school and district to district, differing infection rates and resource levels will make for disparate experiences this fall.
A leading anti-hunger advocate also joined Max & Murphy to talk about how SNAP benefits and food pantries can be reinforced to address COVID’s economic fallout.
At P.S. 124, the Yung Wing School in Chinatown, where more than 90 percent of students are Asian, more than 50 – or 10 to 15 percent of students – missed school on March 10.
Advocates and elected officials are taking steps to prepare for the changes likely to come by landmarking historic sites, calling for a designated “eco-district” and raising concerns about school integration around the Brooklyn canal.
‘While the DOE’s initial plans are encouraging, they fall short of what’s needed to dismantle the entrenched segregation in our schools.’
At a recent meeting, parents and students expressed their concern about the effects that the merger may have on the students’ education and even their safety.
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