Schedule Chaos at Long Island City High School
Two months into the school year, and students at Long Island City High School are saying it is just like the first day of school again: all of their schedules have been changed.In a report on NY1, the...
View ArticleCity Reports More Suspensions, but Serious Crimes Declined
City schools reported handing out more suspensions to students in the last year than before, but most of that increase was owed to a jump in less-serious infractions, while reported cases of egregious...
View Article'Random Scanning' by Police at New Dorp High
In the latest issue of The New Dorp Voice, the newspaper for New Dorp High School on Staten Island, a student journalist wrote about random searches conducted by the New York City police at their...
View ArticleLooking Again at Police Arrest Data
Over a 50-day period recently, beginning last summer, the police arrested or ticketed four New York City students a day, according to records released by the New York City Police Department last month....
View ArticleUnion Leader at Murry Bergtraum Asks Teachers: Tell Us How You Really Feel
Every year for the last three, John Elfrank-Dana, a social studies teacher and union chapter leader at Murry Bergtraum High School for Business Careers, has conducted a survey of the staff in his...
View ArticlePrivate School Parents Targeted for Giving
Parents of public school students in the city are responding to a SchoolBook survey by reporting expenses of up to thousands of dollars to support their child's school or school-related activities. But...
View ArticleAlbany Considering Limiting Release of Teacher Reports
The question of whether teacher evaluations should be released to the general public may be heading to a resolution in Albany next week.Anna M. Phillips reports in The New York Times on Tuesday that...
View ArticleFor City Teenagers, Stop-and-Frisk Is Black and White
A WNYC analysis of police data reveals that one in five people stopped last year by the New York Police Department was a teenager between the ages of 14 and 18. Of these, 86 percent were either black...
View ArticlePolice Release Report on School Arrests
The city made 327 arrests at the city's schools this winter, just over five a day, and handed out 555 summons, according to new data released by the New York Police Department.It was a slight uptick...
View ArticleGroup Faults Police as Overly Aggressive in Schools
The police made 882 arrests in New York City public schools last year, according to a civil liberties group, which said its findings, based on police data, painted a picture of an overly aggressive...
View ArticleTalking to Children About the CT Shooting
Children will likely raise questions about Friday's mass school shooting, either at home or in the classroom, and experts stress the importance of conveying to children the rarity of such an...
View ArticleA Moment of Silence and Safety Reviews in City Schools Post-Newtown
At P.S. 161 in Harlem, classes held a moment of silence today to commemorate the 20 children and six staffers killed by a gunman at Sandy Hook elementary school in Newtown, Connecticut on Friday....
View ArticleOpinion: School Security - Not Gun Control - is what we Should Learn from...
After every awful mass shooting in America, the hot topic becomes gun control. The anti-gun side says we should ban guns, the pro-gun side says everyone should own a gun. The debate is being had all...
View ArticleAn Armed Guard in Every School?
Greg Floyd, president of Teamsters Local 237 which represents NYC public school security agents, gives his reaction to the NRA's proposal to put an armed guard in every school.
View ArticleReport: Child Well Being Depends on Where You Live
More children are living in poverty and more families are struggling to pay unaffordable rents, according to the Citizens' Committee for Children. And while the city is doing better in some areas, like...
View ArticleA Deadly Mix: Students, Trucks and a Missing Crossing Guard
Parents held their childrens’ hands a little tighter as they picked them up from P.S. 155 William Paca on Friday afternoon. Danger felt closer than usual here, and tragedy was the topic of conversation...
View ArticleSchool Safety Agents Claim Pay Discrimination
The city's 5,000 school safety agents have signed on to a class action lawsuit accusing the city of paying them less than the special officers who perform similar work at homeless shelters and...
View ArticleHarlem is a Hot Spot for Traffic Deaths Involving Children
Transportation Nation/WNYCAs reported last week, six-year old Amar Diarassoubba was killed while crossing a Harlem street last week. The emotional case has thrust the dreary issue of pedestrian safety...
View ArticleCity to Install Cameras at High-Speed School Zones
Transportation Nation reported on Tuesday that city officials have the green light they needed from Albany to install speed cameras at 100 schools where speeding cars are a regular occurrence. Speaking...
View ArticleAdvocates Call for New Approach to School Safety
After years of disagreements with City Hall over the NYPD's handling of schools safety, a coalition of children's advocates and the New York Civil Liberties Union called for the next mayor to scrap the...
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