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Racial preferences won’t solve racial inequality.
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Racial preferences won’t solve racial inequality.
Nearly 60 schools across the city are participating in a fast-growing initiative that brings virtual courses to small schools without the bandwidth to run them in person.
Schools Chancellor David Banks doesn’t have to act on the proposals, though the report’s release might create political pressure to change the Fair Student Funding formula.
In New York City, the pandemic upended school admissions: selective schools couldn’t rely as heavily on grades, test scores and attendance records to screen students.
Tim Schermerhorn—subway train operator, rank-and-file activist, union militant and officer, socialist, troublemaker, Labor Notes board member, son, husband, father, grandfather, and my dear friend and comrade—died this week. Tim was hired by the New York City Transit Authority in 1982. As a founder of the Hell on Wheels newsletter in 1984, and later the New Directions caucus,