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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” education by maintaining segregated schools. The suit, filed in Manhattan’s Supreme Court, claims th...

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 & State.One year after the outbreak began, Carranza announced that he had reached his limit – but it ...

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 turn to a dozen sources of capital, from city and state subsidies to loans and private investors. Th...