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The ratings were suspended three years ago amid the COVID pandemic. Now they're back, but they face criticism from some educators, who contend that entire districts can be called out based on data covering relatively small numbers of students.
Local valedictorians' choices of college majors reflect national trends of declining enrollment in humanities majors and a rise in those more directly connected to the workplace.
Members have lobbied for pay and rights equity for girls and women. The branch also supported Title IX.
This is a State-funded program designed to help young men of color and all youth reach their full potential.
East Ramapo held a trustee vote in February, the result of a federal civil rights case brought by the local NAACP. The suit asserted the district's standard voting method disenfranchised Black and brown families who send about 9,000 children to the public schools and favored the white Orthodox Jewish community that sends about 30,000 children to private yeshivas. A federal judge agreed, and a new "ward" voting system was installed that allowed voters to choose local representatives to the nine-member board, rather than the using standard "at large" voting method. Both districts are on th...