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Who Are NYC’s 300,000 Chronically Absent Students?

Ed Reed/Mayoral Photography Office.

Whenever debates over educational equity erupt in New York City, the conversation inevitably turns to the city’s specialized high schools.

But the much bigger crisis, affecting hundreds of thousands of...

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How NYC’s Special Education Pipeline Is Driving a Budget Crisis

Ed Reed/Mayoral Photography Office

Mayor Zohran Mamdani’s new $67.5 million Pre-K special education expansion is a welcome development in New York City special education policy. For the first time, the city is bringing specialized program...

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Federal Report Offers Promising Penn Station Plan

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New York City’s Penn Station is the ultimate transportation planner’s nightmare, dysfunctional on multiple levels and seemingly impossible to fix. At different times, the city, the states of New Jersey and New York, an...

8 days ago
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Ideas For Fixing New York City's Schools

Mayor Zohran Mamdani and Schools Chancellor Kamar Samuels. Via mayor’s office.

This week, much time was spent criticizing the Specialized High Schools Admissions Test (SHSAT) after just 3 Black students were admitted to Stuyvesant, one of...

11 days ago
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The SHSAT Crisis Starts in Kindergarten

Via Mayor’s Office

Each year, when the NYC Department of Education releases admissions data for specialized high schools, the press and elected officials highlight the low enrollment of Black and Hispanic students. Just yesterday, the New...

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    Fascinated by cities and curious about the policies shaping New York's future. Editor at @thebiggerapple.manhattan.institute

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    Ph.D. | Fellow, Manhattan Institute| Writing on education, behavior, and culture.

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