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Despite progress against the scourge of COVID-19, New York City’s schools remain hobbled by policies that enhance neither safety nor student learning. A shining example is the edict that if two cases of COVID are reported in one week, a school closes for up to 10 days. While they can reopen if the cases are shown to be related, most stay closed for the full two weeks. Eliminating this rigid and arbitrary rule would signal that the mayor and his progressive allies care about kids.

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arrow It’s been a year since New York City students experienced a normal day of school. As the pandemic abruptly turned life upside down around the world, roughly a million public school kids in NYC were thrust into a wildly inconsistent learning environment, with repeated openings and closings of school buildings and systemwide shifts to online learning as COVID-19 rates surge. The uncertainty amidst the pandemic has caused widespread reports of stress, anxiety and intense mental anguish amo...

Mobile Devices When it comes to your most-used devices, like your smart phone, tablet, or laptop, Lopez explains that you should start with disabling the tracking capabilities. To turn this off, he says to go to your settings, "privacy," then the tracking setting to turn off any apps that could be taking data. "You may be surprised to find you have some turned on already!" the tech expert says, also noting that some social media apps track users at times. To directly prevent...

Black space engineer, housing advocate Ken Kelly dies at 92 by Michael Warren, The Associated Press Posted Mar 12, 2021 6:37 pm EDT Last Updated Mar 12, 2021 at 6:44 pm EDT Kenneth C. Kelly, a Black electronics engineer whose antenna designs contributed to the race to the moon, made satellite TV and radio possible and helped NASA communicate with Mars rovers and search for extraterrestrials, has died. The 92-year-old also worked to erase race barriers in the Navy, in California housing and on t...

Kenneth Kelly, who helped break racial barriers, is dead at 92.

Kenneth Kelly, who helped break racial barriers, is dead at 92.

Students at NYC iSchool and Chelsea Career and Technical Education High School staged a protest to demand integrated schools. IntegrateNYC, a youth advocacy group who helped organize the boycott, filed a lawsuit Tuesday calling for the elimination of competitive admissions screens that are blamed for driving segregation. Christina Veiga/Chalkbeat A group of New York City public school students filed a lawsuit Tuesday charging that the city and state are denying students a “sound basic” edu...

SHARE: When Richard Carranza showed up to run New York City’s public schools, he did not have a filter when it came to discussing integration. After being appointed by Mayor Bill de Blasio in 2018, he got started on an agenda to address such inequities until he ran into pushback from parents and teachers. But all else would eventually be overshadowed by the coronavirus pandemic, forcing Carranza to deal with what de Blasio described to him as a “war scenario,” the chancellor told City & S...

Meredith Marshall (Photo by Emily Assiran) As a managing partner of BRP Companies, Meredith Marshall is one of the largest builders of affordable and workforce housing in New York. The company placed third on The Real Deal’s list of most active developers of 2020, with 3 million square feet in the pipeline across 10 affordable, market-rate and mixed-income projects. It’s a complicated business. To assemble funding for a single affordable project, Marshall and partner Geoff Flournoy often ...