Celeste Sloman
Attorney General Letitia James is no stranger to a fight. After waging battles with the Trump administration, New York’s top legal officer – and the first woman of color to hold statewide office – is keeping her attention trained on the former president’s questionable real estate ventures, while also taking on Facebook, Google, the New York City Police Department and the National Rifle Association. This year, her office issued a damning report on New York’s undercount of nursing home deaths due to COVID-19, and she appointed two independent attorneys to investigate allegations of sexual harassment against Gov. Andrew Cuomo, a former ally who she might be well positioned to replace at some point in the future.
While the end of the pandemic is likely still months off, the White House has called for most K-8 schools to reopen by May, with in-person instruction at least one day a week, prolonging the possibility of distance learning.
Though virtual challenges remain – like teacher burnout and learning loss – some districts are pinpointing remote practices worth keeping. Sifting out solutions from the struggle may help solve chronic problems of quality and equity, say education experts.
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Educators creating solutions to the challenges of remote learning are seeing the outlines of the future: pandemic innovations that have staying power and may even help solve chronic problems of quality and equity.
New York bill proposes local police be banned from working with ICE
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Protestors hold a rally outside the front doors of the Rensselaer County Sheriff s office on on Thursday, Feb. 20, 20202, in Troy, N.Y. There is a bill in the state Legislature in March 2021 that would ban state law enforcement agencies from working with ICE. (Paul Buckowski/Times Union)Paul Buckowski/Albany Times Union
ALBANY The lights flashed red and blue behind him as Daniel Hernandez was driving his truck home from an auto garage.
A Catskill police officer pulled Hernandez over in February 2020, allegedly for having a loud exhaust, according to the immigrant advocacy group Columbia County Sanctuary Movement. Questions from police about his car turned into questions about his immigration status, and when the officer suspected Hernandez was undocumented, he took him to the station in handcuffs, holding him until U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement officers arrived to detain him.
Dozens rally in downtown Syracuse for Breonna Taylor, Judson Albahm
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Activist group Rebirth SYR has pledged 40 days of action to honor Judson Albahm, who was killed by police on March 4.
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Balloons, signs, candles and posters adorned the statues lining the Firefighter’s Memorial Park in downtown Syracuse on Saturday as Rebirth SYR, a local activist group, staged a rally.
Dozens of community members gathered at the park to remember Breonna Taylor and Judson Albahm. Plainclothes police officers fatally shot Taylor, a 26-year old EMT, in March 2020 while serving a no-knock warrant in her Louisville, Kentucky, apartment, sparking nationwide protests against police brutality. The officers involved were cleared of any wrongdoing.
Women Take To The Streets Of NYC Demanding Equal Rights Amendment Be Added To U.S. Constitution
CBS New York 3/8/2021 Syndicated Local – CBS New York
To celebrate, hundreds of people from the Tri-State Area came out Sunday to honor female leaders and to call for action.
They said it’s time for the Equal Rights Amendment to be added to the U.S. Constitution, CBS2’s Dave Carlin reported.
“We cannot take our rights for granted,” said Donna Lieberman, executive director of the New York Civil Liberties Union.
In Washington Square Park on Sunday, there was a bold, boisterous demand for full equality for women. A crowd of several hundred were on hand drumming it up.