Mayah Collins – School Stories

Eagle Academy School for Young Men is Less Hispanic, Less Poor than its Surrounding South Bronx Neighborhood

May 19, 2015March 25, 2020 - by Mayah Collins

Eagle Academy 6th through 12th grade school in the South Bronx has the most skewed population of students in Tremont’s District 9: fewer English Language Learners and fewer children who qualify for free and reduced lunch than the average.

Community in Favor of New Charter School in Wakefield

February 19, 2015 - by Mayah Collins

A Bronx Charter School for Better Learning proposal to open a second school inside J.H.S. 144 on Gunther Avenue next fall faced no public resistance Feb. 9.

Book Review on Leblanc’s Random Family

February 12, 2015February 14, 2015 - by Mayah Collins

Adrian Nicole Leblanc spent a decade reporting on the lives of urban street kids and their families in the South Bronx. It all started in the early 1990s when a …