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In 2015, a letter to the New York City Department of Education from 52 parents, former students and teachers naming specific schools ultimately had the effect, and the city, in a rare move in the history of nonpublic schools in New York, especially yeshivas, launched an investigation. The probe stretched eight years due to an accommodating ...
In a package of bills announced Monday, the Dems want to adjust the legal standard to make it easier to sue a campus that has allowed discriminatory harassment to go unchecked as well as ensure ...
Under New York law, public schools may adopt regulations under which they open their facilities to public use during non-school hours. In 1992, Milford Central School adopted regulations under this law, allowing district residents to use the school for "instruction in any branch of education, learning, or the arts," and making the school available for "social, civic, and recreational meetings ...
The Civil Rights Act of 1964, enacted five months after the New York City school boycott, included a loophole that allowed school segregation to continue in major northern cities including New York City, Boston, Chicago and Detroit. [4] As of 2018, New York City continues to have the most segregated schools in the country. [9]
Last Friday, the Department of Education released a "Dear Colleague" letter directing educational institutions to stop all forms of racial discrimination in essentially all aspects of their ...
She has bounced from school to school, searching for support in an education system that seems intent on pushing her further from graduation and closer to the criminal justice system. If she gets arrested again, the stakes will be higher. New York is one of two states that always prosecutes 16- and 17-year-olds as adults.
Michele Figueira filed a suit against the school district claiming she was discriminated against because she is a lesbian. The school denies it. Ex-teacher sues York School Department alleging ...
The New York City teachers' strike of 1968 was a months-long confrontation between the new community-controlled school board in the largely black Ocean Hill–Brownsville neighborhoods of Brooklyn and New York City's United Federation of Teachers. It began with a one day walkout in the Ocean Hill-Brownsville school district.