Here's what you need to know about what's happening in New York City.
Making New Yorkers count: To ensure New York City doesn’t suffer a 2020 Census disaster, get money flowing to community organizations
New York state and city governments have turned the 2020 Census into a slow-moving train with no conductor. Given the major challenges tied to this Census — including the likely inclusion of a citizenship question that appears to be explicitly designed to suppress the count in cities with large immigrant communities — we are miserably behind where we should be. What’s worse, there’s little sign that officials in Albany or City Hall are worried.
Read the full story on New York Daily News.
Join the integration movement, N.Y.: Before our eyes, New York City’s public schools are diversifying
In a city where a lot goes wrong, something right is happening in New York: a growing movement to attack and reverse the racial segregation of our public schools.
Read the full story on New York Daily News.
Shuffled among homeless shelters, and not told why
Numbers seem to back up complaints from people in New York City’s shelter system that they are moved, for seemingly no reason, far from work, school and family.
Read the full story on The New York Times.
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