Dawn Yuster News Today

Advocates want the mayor to restore funding for the Mental Health Continuum, a program that gives students easier access to counselors.

Between July and December 2022, NYC public schools issued just over 10,600 suspensions, a dramatic increase compared with the same period in 2021.

Despite a pledge to stop relying on police to deal with students who have mental health episodes, New York City schools have continued to call 911 on kids in distress thousands of times a year, an investigation by THE CITY and ProPublica found.

Despite a pledge to stop relying on police to deal with students who have mental health episodes, New York City schools have continued to call 911 on kids in distress thousands of times a year, an investigation by THE CITY and ProPublica found.

With the majority of the school year now over, school districts haven’t been able to apply for the grant money due to a lengthy bureaucratic process.

There are cases nationwide of elementary school students being handcuffed in school and taken into police custody.

Most kids labeled as having an “emotional disability” and shunted into public special education schools are Black or Latino, and low income — while wealthier families more often access a taxpayer-funded free private education.

The best student at Sunset Park’s Lillian Rashkis High School reads at what his mom estimates is a fifth-grade level and still doesn’t know his multiplication tables.

Violet is one of more than 1,600 students taken away from school in an ambulance during an emotional crisis and brought to a hospital for psychiatric evaluation between July, 2021 and March 30 of this year, according to an analysis of NYPD data by Advocates for Children.

Rigoberto Lopez had struggled with mental illness since he was a teenager. But what his relatives described as typical, rebellious adolescent behavior