Education Reporting in NYC
After years of non-compliance with federal laws protecting the rights of students with disabilities, the city has set its sights higher with school physical accessibility targets for 2024. But the pandemic has disrupted its plans, and our age of remote learning has raised different challenges to accessibility.
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For the first time in nearly 100 years, New York City public schools were on track to alter their “abysmally low” number of buildings that meet the needs of hundreds of students with physical disabilities. Then came Covid-19.
Read MoreThe U.S. Department of Education announces more than $13.2 billion available in emergency relief funds to state and local agencies. [U.S. Department of Education]
Read MoreWhat do students who rely on schools for the personal, hands-on attention of specialists do now? [The Atlantic]
Read MoreSome cafeterias have taken on the role of community soup kitchens, even though the federal school meals program won’t reimburse districts for all the meals. [The New York Times]
Read MoreOnly 84.3% of students have had some kind of daily interactions with their schools, according to data released by the New York City education department. [Chalkbeat]
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