#nyc-school-closures

#nyc-school-closures

"We're talking about revitalizing our neighborhoods and rebuilding our communities that are facing blight and abandonment. We're also talking about adding tax dollars to our revenue stream and creating new economic opportunities."

McMahon is familiar with organizations built around an increasingly unstable man who is a genius at spinning story lines that inflame the crowd and damage enemies and institutions but, if you think too hard about them, don't necessarily add up to a coherent narrative.

Police in the Bronx are searching for a machete-wielding madman who attacked and seriously wounded two men in a bloody assault early on Tuesday morning.

The Knowledge Alliance noted in the memo more IES funding could lapse 'if the amounts currently allocated to programs are not fully spent.'

Mainchance's CEO, Brady Crain, expressed concern that the absence of their facility would leave a significant gap in the city's safety net for the homeless, particularly in the busy Midtown East neighborhood.

"The health and safety of our students, faculty and staff is CUNY's top priority. That's why, over the past two years, the University has invested $850 million in our facilities, completing or advancing more than 100 projects."

New York City K-12 students with perfect attendance are on track this year to be in school for 1,102 hours. That's about 20 fewer days than the national average, per the study, of about 1,231 hours in school each year.

They're too dumb to know they're at a bad school," the parent, Alyson Friedman, could be heard saying at the meeting in February. Friedman, a parent at The Center School, also said, "If you train a Black person well enough, they'll know to use the back, you don't have to tell them anymore," a quote she misattributed to Martin Luther King, Jr.

"School safety agent is one that we are having difficulty recruiting for, our actual headcount is significantly under our budgeted headcount," said NYPD Police Commissioner Jessica Tisch.

Before the pandemic, some of the most serious violent and disruptive incident categories in schools (assault, sexual offenses and weapons possession) experienced gradually declining rates over three academic years spanning 2017-2020, although rates for New York City schools were notably higher. After in-person learning resumed, the incident rates remained much lower than in the pre-pandemic years. The categories of assault, sexual offense and weapons possession cases each declined to under 1% per thousand students.

They entered high school in a weird place. It is possible that some students started ninth grade not as prepared as they otherwise would have been. - Sarah Part, senior policy analyst at Advocates for Children, regarding the Class of 2025 students who began high school in September 2021 as the first full in-person cohort after pandemic disruptions.