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From Charters to Common Core, There’s a Ceasefire in NY’s School Wars (City Limits)
Real diversity, in Brooklyn: A new school integration plan puts more equitable and excellent schools for all in reach (NYDN) – ahead of today’s announcement on District 15 Integration Plan at MS51. You may also want to save the date for this event where Nikole Hannah-Jones talks about school desegregation at Brooklyn Tech.
Feds secretly deport Brooklyn grandmom to Mexico after 33 years, stunning family members (NYDN)
Will NYC Finally Do Something about All Its Vacant Storefronts? (Next City) ahead of hearings about potential commercial rent control.
Landlords are terrified Democrats could take control over New York (NYPost)
NYC homeowners have unrealistic expectations: reports Crain’s. Home prices have posted big gains, but they were not necessarily a great investment, they argue.
The Absolute Best Restaurants in Park Slope according to Grubstreet.
Retire? These Graying ‘Encore Entrepreneurs’ Are Just Starting Up – NYT features some neighbors.
Helen Rosenthal has introduced legislation which would require the New York City Department of Health and Mental Hygiene to offer pregnant New Yorkers access to the services of a doula, and she writes about why in City Limits: “Analysis of the Department of Health’s “By My Side” pilot program in Brooklyn has found statistically significant decreases in preterm births and underweight babies, as well as significant improvements in women’s evaluation of the childbirth experience.”
This could totally be in Brooklyn:
We are also reading:
Remembering the ‘Mother of All Pandemics,’ 100 Years Later (CityLab) – a hundred years ago all anyone was talking about this time of year was the Spanish Flu.
- The Gender Politics of Pockets. The iPhone 6 may be the great catalyst in including this oft-ignored aspect of women’s fashion. (The Atlantic)
- FROM BRIC: A new documentary, Crime & Punishment, shares the story of 12 active cops trying to hold the NYPD accountable and create reform from within. Covering a class-action lawsuit brought forward by these officers against the NYPD alleging illegal quotas for arrests and summonses, Crime & Punishment provides a behind-the-scenes look at the impact cops can have on procedural and structural change. To talk about the film and the questions it poses, MacKenzie Fegan is joined by director Stephen Maing, retired NYPD detective Derick Waller, and private investigator Manuel Gomez. You can also listen as a podcast here: