Cayla Bamberger
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Education and youth issues reporter @nydailynews.com Tips to:
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Cayla Bamberger
New York Daily News
1 day ago
NYC to open hip-hop high school, specialized programs for students with disabilities
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NYC to open hip-hop high school, specialized programs for students with disabilities
https://www.nydailynews.com/2026/05/05/nyc-open-hip-hop-high-school-specialized-programs-students-disabilities/?utm_campaign=mrf-bluesky-nydailynews.com&mrfcid=2026050569fa5b5dc776e311d55466c3
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Cayla Bamberger
New York Daily News
1 day ago
Gov. Hochul may not be ready to tax the rich, but more money for NYC schools is on the table
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Gov. Hochul may not be ready to tax the rich, but more money for NYC schools is on the table
https://www.nydailynews.com/2026/05/05/gov-hochul-may-not-be-ready-to-tax-the-rich-but-more-money-for-nyc-schools-is-on-the-table/?utm_campaign=mrf-bluesky-nydailynews.com&mrfcid=2026050569fa5d14e8336c2f75a60f59
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John Annese
3 days ago
This story made our wood today.
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John Annese
5 days ago
New from me, with a crucial assist by
@caylabam.bsky.social
: A Queens HS principal accused of sexually harassing and abusing staffers and a student will have criminal charges dropped if he retires and finishes sex offender treatment. He still faces EDNY lawsuit.
www.nydailynews.com/2026/05/02/c...
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‘Creepy’ Queens principal accused of sex abuse to get charges dropped if he retires
William Bassell, 67, who faces misdemeanor sex abuse and forcible touching charges in addition to a blockbuster civil lawsuit, will get a “adjournment contemplating dismissal,” meaning the charges aga...
https://www.nydailynews.com/2026/05/02/creepy-queens-principal-accused-of-sex-abuse-to-get-charges-dropped-if-he-retires/?share=spoisas2lyphmtffche2
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Cayla Bamberger
Dana Goldstein
7 days ago
With student A.I. use/abuse now ubiquitous, professors and teachers are killing off take-home essays and papers. Students are writing inside the classroom, often by hand. It's part of the big rethink happening on tech and learning. My new report here:
www.nytimes.com/2026/04/30/u...
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How A.I. Killed Student Writing (and Revived It)
https://www.nytimes.com/2026/04/30/us/ai-students-cheating-homework-classrooms.html?unlocked_article_code=1.e1A.e4Ey.eInTbTSeTnKy&smid=url-share
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State testing system glitches lock out NYC students ready to take standardized tests
www.nydailynews.com/2026/04/29/s...
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State testing system glitches lock out NYC students ready to take standardized tests
The glitches were so disruptive that some schools decided to throw in the towel and delay the test to another day.
https://www.nydailynews.com/2026/04/29/state-testing-system-glitches-lock-out-nyc-students-ready-to-take-standardized-tests/
8 days ago
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NYC Council is debating a law that would set time limits on young people's social media use as concerns grow over its effects on mental health
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NYC Council debates limiting social media time for young people amid mental health concerns
The bill would prohibit social media companies from allowing young people on their platforms for more than one hour per day, unless waived by a parent or guardian.
https://www.nydailynews.com/2026/04/21/nyc-council-debates-limiting-social-media-time-for-young-people-amid-mental-health-concerns/
15 days ago
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The first day of NYC public school will be unusually late this fall, according to the official 2026-27 school year calendar released today — forcing families to scramble for child care at the end of summer break.
www.nydailynews.com/2026/04/21/n...
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NYC public school classes will start late next school year, on Sept. 10
The first day of New York City public school will be unusually late this fall, according to the official 2026-27 school year calendar released Tuesday — forcing families to scramble for child care at ...
https://www.nydailynews.com/2026/04/21/nyc-public-school-classes-will-start-almost-week-later-usual-next-school-year/
16 days ago
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As NYC launches free child care for 2-year-olds, Mayor Mamdani will open most of the first 2,000 seats in programs that operate on a full-day year-round schedule, he’ll announce at a press conference later today in Brooklyn.
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https://www.nydailynews.com/2026/04/09/mamdanis-signature-2-k-child-care-program-will-be-full-day-and-year-round/
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AI guidance for NYC public schools is out and, as the DN reported yesterday, includes a "traffic-light" system to help teachers and principals make informed decisions about AI in education. Here's what it says — and doesn't say:
www.nydailynews.com/2026/03/24/n...
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NYC public schools OK AI use in lesson plans, not grades or discipline
The guide marked the first time New York City public schools has offered real decision-making support around artificial intelligence in the classroom.
https://www.nydailynews.com/2026/03/24/nyc-public-schools-ai-guidance-lesson-plans-grades-discipline/
about 1 month ago
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Cayla Bamberger
New York Daily News
about 1 month ago
NYC public schools to release guidelines for AI use in classroom
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NYC public schools to release guidelines for AI use in classroom
https://www.nydailynews.com/2026/03/23/nyc-public-schools-ai-guidelines-classroom/?utm_campaign=mrf-bluesky-nydailynews.com&mrfcid=2026032369c1b36456969c2ac086bd7b
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Cayla Bamberger
Mica Rosenberg
about 1 month ago
NEW: More than 11,000. That’s how many US citizen children have a parent who has been detained under Trump, our new data analysis shows. When Doris Flores was separated from her four-month-old who was still breastfeeding, she turned to her pastor for help.
www.propublica.org/article/trum...
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Trump Has Detained the Parents of More Than 11,000 U.S. Citizen Kids
A ProPublica analysis of new ICE data shows that Trump has detained parents of U.S. citizen children at about twice the rate that Biden did, and moms have been deported four times as often.
https://www.propublica.org/article/trump-family-deportations-ice-citizen-kids
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At the City Council's NYC Public Schools budget hearing, Chancellor Kamar Samuels announces AI guidance coming tomorrow: "Our work to leverage technology responsibly continues with our foundational AI guidance, which will be released tomorrow and will include opportunities for community input."
about 1 month ago
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Dylan Lopez Contreras, the first known NYC student detained by federal immigration authorities as part of President Trump’s mass deportation agenda, has been released after nearly a year in custody
www.nydailynews.com/2026/03/18/d...
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Dylan Lopez Contreras, NYC high school student, released after 10 months in ICE detention
Dylan Lopez Contreras, a Bronx high school student who fled persecution in Venezuela, was arrested last spring at a routine immigration hearing.
https://www.nydailynews.com/2026/03/18/dylan-lopez-contreras-nyc-high-school-student-released-10-months-ice-detention/
about 2 months ago
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Cayla Bamberger
New York Daily News
about 2 months ago
Chancellor Kamar Samuels is moving ahead with a broader plan to close or relocate UWS schools — as miffed parents question why they haven’t been afforded a second chance.
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One Upper West Side school was saved after a hot mic flap. Now parents want their schools saved too
https://www.nydailynews.com/2026/03/15/a-hot-mic-controversy-saved-one-upper-west-side-school-now-parents-want-their-schools-saved-too/?utm_campaign=mrf-bluesky-nydailynews.com&mrfcid=2026031569b6bf20b8e025421ece7a59
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Cayla Bamberger
New York Daily News
about 2 months ago
Mamdani launches $100M 3-K expansion including NYC’s wealthier neighborhoods
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Mamdani launches $100M 3-K expansion including NYC’s wealthier neighborhoods
https://www.nydailynews.com/2026/03/10/mamdani-launches-100m-3-k-expansion-including-nycs-wealthier-neighborhoods/?utm_campaign=mrf-bluesky-nydailynews.com&mrfcid=2026031069b08b59e077e55d2a059827
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Gov. Hochul said that she provided Border Czar Tom Homan today w/ "the names of a number of students who are in detention that we would like to see released." The Daily News asked the governor's office for that list, but they declined to share it.
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2 months ago
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The NYPD has released body-cam footage of officers encountering DHS agents after last week’s federal immigration arrest of Columbia U student Ellie Aghayeva
www.nydailynews.com/2026/03/06/b...
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Body-cam video shows NYPD response to fed agents’ arrest of Columbia student
Columbia Acting President Claire Shipman has said that DHS agents “misrepresented” that “they were police searching for a missing child.”
https://www.nydailynews.com/2026/03/06/body-cam-video-shows-nypd-response-ice-arrest-columbia-student/
2 months ago
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NYC Schools Chancellor Kamar Samuels picked his cabinet today, w/ a seasoned education official as his top deputy and major changes to the way superintendents are overseen:
www.nydailynews.com/2026/03/05/k...
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NYC schools chancellor Kamar Samuels taps top deputy, shakes up superintendent oversight
Samuels appointed Danielle Giunta the first deputy chancellor of the city’s public schools.
https://www.nydailynews.com/2026/03/05/kamar-samuels-appoints-deputy-two-superintendant-leadership/
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Cayla Bamberger
New York Daily News
2 months ago
NYC Chancellor shelves UWS school closure plan that sparked hot mic racial controversy
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NYC Chancellor shelves UWS school closure plan that sparked hot mic racial controversy
Allyson Friedman, a parent at another impacted school was caught on hot mic during a Feb. 10 school board meeting, calling the students “too dumb to know they’re in a bad school.”
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Former Schools Chancellor Melissa Aviles-Ramos has taken a job as a high-ranking advisor at HMH, a company that does millions of dollars in city business each year as one of three literacy curriculum providers NYC schools were required to use.
www.nydailynews.com/2026/03/02/f...
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Former Chancellor Aviles-Ramos takes gig at company doing millions in business with city schools
It’s unclear if the new gig includes work on the company’s dealing in New York, but city and state rules mostly restrict her from doing work within the five boroughs.
https://www.nydailynews.com/2026/03/02/former-chancellor-aviles-ramos-takes-gig-at-company-doing-millions-in-business-with-city-schools/
2 months ago
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Cayla Bamberger
John Annese
2 months ago
The New York Daily News welcomes letters to the editor, unless of course those letters are critical of the layoffs at the New York Daily News. They won't print those letters, it seems.
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Calls to remove a south Brooklyn superintendent are mounting after her husband allegedly posed as someone else on social media to attack a union rep for local teachers.
www.nydailynews.com/2026/03/01/h...
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Husband’s alleged online attacks against union rep spark calls to oust Brooklyn superintendent
The saga began to unfold when Acting Superintendent Erin Lynch-Reyes’ bid to become the permanent leader of District 21 seemed to hit a roadblock over public acrimony between teachers and the…
https://www.nydailynews.com/2026/03/01/husbands-alleged-online-attacks-against-union-rep-spark-calls-to-oust-brooklyn-superintendent/?share=rsieluyngwwwnosgtkin
2 months ago
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Today's the deadline to apply for 3K + preK. More than 75,000 families had submitted apps as of early this week — thousands short of last year's total. We ask: How much will Mamdani’s best efforts to get the word out move the needle on the # of families who apply?
www.nydailynews.com/2026/02/25/a...
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Amid Mamdani outreach, applications for NYC 3-K, pre-K programs running short of last year’s tally
The city received 95,000 total applications last year, a figure that has held relatively steady over the last three years. Applications are not first-come, first-served, so it’s not uncommon …
https://www.nydailynews.com/2026/02/25/amid-mamdani-outreach-blitz-applications-for-nyc-3-k-pre-k-programs-running-short-of-goal/
2 months ago
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Cayla Bamberger
Daily News Union
2 months ago
What the
@nytimes.com
fails to mention (again) is that the reason for the font change (which extends beyond the wood - aka "page 1" - to the entirety of the paper) is Alden Capital's decision to lay off our entire print production staff.
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DHS agents entered a residence hall and detained a Columbia University student this morning, after making "misrepresentations" to gain entry, President Claire Shipman said.
www.nydailynews.com/2026/02/26/f...
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Federal DHS agents detain Columbia student in campus dorm after making ‘misrepresentations’
Columbia University Acting President Claire Shipman said school officials were working to gather more details.
https://www.nydailynews.com/2026/02/26/federal-dhs-agents-detain-columbia-student-campus-dorm-misrepresentations-shipman/
2 months ago
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Cayla Bamberger
Daily News Union
2 months ago
It would be great, too, if the
@nytimes.com
media desk would spend even half the effort it took to write this story on providing coverage of this month's layoffs at the Daily News.
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Hunter College prof. Allyson Friedman, who was caught on hot mic making racist remarks at an Upper West Side school board meeting, has been placed on leave, the college president wrote to students and faculty today.
www.nydailynews.com/2026/02/25/c...
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CUNY professor Allyson Friedman placed on leave after making racist comments on hot mic
Friedman, who taught in Hunter’s biology department and is a parent at a local public school, was caught on hot mic during a Feb. 10 Community Education Council 3 meeting interrupting Black s…
https://www.nydailynews.com/2026/02/25/cuny-hunter-professor-allyson-friedman-caught-on-hot-mic-making-racist-comments-placed-on-leave-west-side/
2 months ago
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FBI agents raided the home of Alberto Carvalho, the schools superintendent who in 2018 was tapped NYC's next chancellor — only to back out right after.
apnews.com/article/los-...
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FBI serves search warrants at Los Angeles school district headquarters and superintendent’s home
The FBI is serving search warrants at the Los Angeles Unified School District’s headquarters and the superintendent’s home.
https://apnews.com/article/los-angeles-schools-fbi-search-warrants-f7ffc6853a6c0b228c50cf5fe596ce66
2 months ago
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Cayla Bamberger
Ben Werdmuller
2 months ago
"Should a dad be deported for leaving his toddlers alone at home for a half hour 15 years ago? The Trump administration says yes in a pending court case with sweeping implications for both the immigration and child welfare systems."
www.propublica.org/article/trum...
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Trump’s Latest Deportation Tactic: Targeting Immigrants With Minor Family Court Cases
Should a dad be deported for leaving his toddlers alone at home for a half hour 15 years ago? The Trump administration says yes in a pending court case with sweeping implications for both the immigrat...
https://www.propublica.org/article/trump-immigration-deportation-family-court-sotero-mendoza-rivera
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New York Daily News
2 months ago
Parents, officials gather to condemn racist remarks at UWS school board meeting
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Parents, officials gather to condemn racist remarks at UWS school board meeting
The professor, Allyson Friedman, was caught on hot mic during a Feb. 10 Community Education Council 3 meeting on the Upper West Side.
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Cayla Bamberger
New York Daily News
2 months ago
Mamdani knocked for quickly reopening schools after blizzard as student attendance down
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Mamdani knocked for quickly reopening schools after blizzard as student attendance down
Only 63.3% of NYC public-school students showed up at school on Tuesday — about 27% fewer than last year’s average.
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Cayla Bamberger
Evan Simko-Bednarski
3 months ago
Theology Prof. Christopher Denny pushed back against the idea that pulling recognition of the unions was part of St. John’s Catholic mission, quoting Pope Francis: “There are no free workers without a union.'” He called the union busting "cafeteria Catholicism"
@caylabam.bsky.social
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St. John’s University stops recognizing faculty unions under religious schools exemption
The unions — the American Association of University Professors (AAUP) and the Faculty Association — and school administration had been negotiating a new contract for about a year but talks came to …
https://www.nydailynews.com/2026/02/20/st-johns-university-stops-recognizing-faculty-unions-religious-schools-exemption/
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NYC’s deputy chancellor for family engagement, Cristina Meléndez, is leaving her role on Feb. 27, she wrote in an email today. It seems she’s the first cabinet-level edu official to depart since Chancellor Kamar Samuels started in Jan. (Chatter is Samuels could build out his own cabinet by summer)
3 months ago
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Evan Simko-Bednarski
3 months ago
Today, SaferWatch CEO Geno Roefaro and former NYPD School Safety Cmdr Kevin Taylor were indicted by the feds for an alleged bribery scheme to get the firm a contract with the city.
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Former NYPD School Safety commander indicted in bribery scheme
The former head of the NYPD School Safety division tried to steer city contracts to a Florida businessman in exchange for cash payments, luxury hotel stays and Broadway tickets, federal officials s…
https://www.nydailynews.com/2026/02/12/former-nypd-school-safety-commander-indicted-bribery-scheme/
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Evan Simko-Bednarski
3 months ago
Back in September '24,
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and I broke the news that SaferWatch -- which hired the brother of a deputy mayor & the school chancellor as a consultant -- had been raided by the feds.
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Federal investigators search private firm that hired Terence Banks as part of NYC corruption probe
Federal authorities investing possible City Hall corruption have served search warrant on at least one employee of SaferWatch, a security app company that hired the brother of two of Mayor Adams…
https://www.nydailynews.com/2024/09/13/federal-investigators-search-private-firm-that-hired-terence-banks-as-part-of-nyc-corruption-probe/
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Cayla Bamberger
Daily News Union
3 months ago
This morning, Executive Editor Andrew Julien, citing a "a highly competitive media landscape," told NYDN staff to expect layoffs. The first cuts are primarily hitting our National Desk, but we're also losing some metro staffers and more cuts are expected — more than 25% of the unionized newsroom.
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New York Daily News
3 months ago
Mamdani takes first step in launching promised 2K program, though key questions remain
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Mamdani takes first step in launching promised 2K program, though key questions remain
2-K is expected to launch this fall with the first 2,000 seats in high-need neighborhoods.
https://buff.ly/swX5Osk
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Cayla Bamberger
Daily News Union
3 months ago
In today's paper,
@richiefife.bsky.social
call's Alden Capital's NYDN Font Gate "another visible marker of a paper steadily abandoning its identity, its readers, and its responsibility to this city."
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Cayla Bamberger
Daily News Union
3 months ago
WHAT THE FONT Daily News readers and reporters alike awoke this morning to pages and fonts we could barely recognize. Apparently our hedge-fund owners thought New York's hometown paper needed to look more like generic mid-market wire copy. Sunday vs. Monday, below:
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Cayla Bamberger
Rich O’Malley
3 months ago
I am immediately filled with sadness and rage. Something in me just died, to be quite honest, and it was a murder. I once again feel so bad for my friends who remain and were forced to send the pages to the plant like that. At least we have the DN Union fighting the good fights.
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Cayla Bamberger
New York Daily News
3 months ago
NYC schools to reopen Tuesday after remote learning ‘snow day’
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NYC schools to reopen Tuesday after remote learning ‘snow day’
After an online “snow day” Monday, it’s back to in-person learning Tuesday for NYC public school students.
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John Annese
3 months ago
New from me -- after NYC Mayor Zohran Mamdani plugged "Heated Rivalry" in his snow day press conference, downloads through the New York Public Library surged. NYPL tells me downloads of the eBook and audio book increased by 529% Sunday after the mayor spoke.
www.nydailynews.com/2026/01/26/a...
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After Mamdani’s snow day plug, ‘Heated Rivalry’ book downloads surge at NY Public Library
The New York Public Library saw a 529% spike in “Heated Rivalry” downloads after Mamdani plugged the book during his snow storm press conference.
https://www.nydailynews.com/2026/01/26/after-mamdanis-snow-day-plug-heated-rivalry-book-downloads-surge-at-ny-public-library/
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Cayla Bamberger
New York Daily News
3 months ago
NYC schools to close Monday due to snowstorm, shift to remote learning
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NYC schools to close Monday due to snowstorm, shift to remote learning
The pivot to virtual instruction will impact some 500,000 students across more than 1,100 schools.
https://www.nydailynews.com/2026/01/25/nyc-schools-to-close-monday-due-to-snowstorm-shift-to-remote-learning/
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Cayla Bamberger
New York Daily News
4 months ago
After Mamdani reversal, Gov. Hochul proposes 4-year extension of mayoral control over NYC schools
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After Mamdani reversal, Gov. Hochul proposes 4-year extension of mayoral control over NYC schools
Mamdani ran for mayor on a promise to end mayoral control, saying that it shut parents and teachers out of shared decision-making about their children’s education.
https://buff.ly/lVIHpXd
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New York Daily News
4 months ago
Gov. Hochul’s budget proposes record school aid, but NYC kids may still get shortchanged
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Gov. Hochul’s budget proposes record school aid, but NYC kids may still get shortchanged
Even though overall education spending is higher, NYC could see itself shortchanged again this year when the dollars are divvied up among New York state’s various cities and towns.
https://buff.ly/ULGP8br
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Rita Joseph is expected to be tapped to lead the Council's less prominent Committee on Higher Education, a post Dinowitz used to hold
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4 months ago
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The Trump admin opened an investigation today into NYC public schools over a policy that allows trans students to participate in sports aligned with their gender identity, federal officials announced in a news release.
www.nydailynews.com/2026/01/14/t...
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Trump admin opens probe into NYC policy on transgender athletes in school sports
It marked the second time in a matter of months the federal government has targeted NYC’s schools over their gender policies.
https://www.nydailynews.com/2026/01/14/trump-admin-opens-probe-nyc-policy-transgender-athletes-school-sports/
4 months ago
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Cayla Bamberger
New York Daily News
4 months ago
Mamdani slams Adams outreach efforts at 3-K, pre-K application launch
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Mamdani slams Adams outreach efforts at 3-K, pre-K application launch
Mayor Mamdani pledged a “full-court press” to increase enrollment in New York City’s pre-K and 3-K programs.
https://buff.ly/vPExmBm
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New York Daily News
4 months ago
Gov. Hochul proposing expansion of free community college program with focus on nursing
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Gov. Hochul proposing expansion of free community college program with focus on nursing
The expansion would include new opportunities for aspiring nurses as thousands went on strike in New York City.
https://buff.ly/l8WLs3y
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