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AFT Reopening schools has been one of the most contested issues of the COVID-19 era, and few have been happy with the pace – parent, teacher or student. One person who thought New York City has tackled it correctly is Randi Weingarten, the president of the American Federation of Teachers. Unlike some national labor figures, Weingarten remains influential among local education unions in New York, where she headed the United Federation of Teachers from 1998 to 2009. 7. John Samuelsen International President, Transport Workers Union As international president of the Transport Workers Union, John Samuelsen represents 150,000 transit workers, including 41,000 at the Metropolitan Transportation Authority, his former employer whose tracks stretch from New York City to Poughkeepsie and Montauk. After a $3.9 billion bailout in March 2020, the MTA is receiving another $6 billion in aid via the American Rescue Plan, sidestepping once again the looming jobs catastrophe cause ....
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Felicia Young, environmental activist and community organizer, is passionate about using the arts to help NYC residents address climate change and demand government action. An Earth Celebrations mobile mural. (Earth Celebrations) Over the past several decades, community-organizer-slash-environmental activist Felicia Young has had several epiphanies about the importance of art in fomenting progressive social change. As the founder and executive director of Earth Celebrations, a 30-year-old New York City-based group that brings diverse constituencies together to support community gardens and promote urban ecology, Young is passionate about using the arts dance, music, theater and an array of visual mediums to help city residents address escalating climate change and demand government action in support of sustainable development. ....
Title Text: Caption: Description: Image Credit: Michael Appleton/Mayoral Photography Office As the leader of the nation’s largest public school system, Richard Carranza’s decisions affect the everyday lives of hundreds of thousands of students and families in New York City. Yet despite some successes, such as student gains at resource-intensive community schools, Carranza has faced a fierce backlash on efforts to scrap exams to get into elite high schools and gifted and talented programs – and Gov. Andrew Cuomo has exerted control over local COVID-19 school shutdowns and reopenings. 3. Lester Young Chancellor, New York State Board of Regents Lester Young was unanimously elected by his fellow Regents this year to serve as the chancellor of the New York State Board of Regents, the influential governmental body that sets educational policy and oversees the state Education Department. Young, who has some 50 years of experience positively t ....
SHARE: For the past several years, City & State has closed out the year with a list of leaders in the private sector who are actively seeking to help New Yorkers and make our state a better place. It was a nice, uplifting feature that reminded us all that there’s more to life than making money as we brainstorm our own New Year’s resolutions. But 2020 was different. As we shut ourselves in our homes and lost family, friends and neighbors to a deadly pandemic, and as the federal government abdicated responsibility, it fell on state and local governments and private institutions to do the responsible thing and pick up the slack to help New Yorkers in their time of need. ....