A new report concludes 15,000 people in Westchester County ages 16 to 24 are, or are at risk of becoming, disconnected youth — that is, they lack support in education, employment, housing and other basic necessities. Because of these detriments they “will find it difficult to make the transition to… Read More →
New York Education Commissioner John King and other state Department of Education officials join an Editorial Spotlight interview at 3 p.m. today to discuss standardized testing, Common Core, teacher evaluations, budget issues and more. Also attending: Dennis Tompkins, chief of external affairs Kate Gerson, senior fellow for Common Core and… Read More →
Opinion Editor Herb Pinder and Tax Watch Columnist David McKay Wilson discuss Ferncliff Manor, the Yonkers-based school looking to move to the vacant WestHELP property in Greeburgh. (Video by Matthew Brown/The Journal News) Read more about WestHELP on Tax Watch at http://lohud.com/taxwatch.
Rockland’s East Ramapo school district struggles with a multimillion-dollar budget deficit and program cuts. Adding to a difficult situation, bitter divisions exist between the mostly black and Hispanic children and families who use the public schools and the Hasidic and ultra-Orthodox majority who run the Board of Education and send… Read More →
Rockland’s East Ramapo school district struggles with a multimillion-dollar budget deficit and program cuts. Adding to a difficult situation, bitter divisions exist between the mostly black and Hispanic children and families who use the public schools and the Hasidic and ultra-Orthodox majority who run the Board of Education and send… Read More →
Westchester County Executive Robert Astorino announced Wednesday an anti-violence project that unites mental health experts, schools and nonprofits. The project is his response to the Dec. 14 school shooting that left 20 first-graders and six educators, in addition to the shooter and his mother, dead in Newtown, Conn. Astorino and… Read More →
Elected officials in New York issued statements or tweeted about the NRA press conference on Friday in which CEO Wayne LaPierre called for an armed police officer in every school. N.Y. Assembly Speaker Sheldon Silver: The NRA’s response to the tragic events in Newtown is deeply disturbing and underscores just… Read More →
The NRA made its first statement after the Connecticut school shooting at a press conference Friday in Washington. National Rifle Association CEO Wayne LaPierre spoke, saying movies, video games and the media should share blame for gun crimes and calling for armed police officers in all U.S. schools. What Westchester… Read More →
Roundup of commentary and blog posts after the Connecticut school shooting: Watch live at 11 a.m. today: Panel discussion on what’s next after the Connecticut school shooting What Obama and Congress are doing about gun violence. Two years on, gun shows at Westchester County Center still cause conflict. Commentary: 2012… Read More →
Watch a replay below of today’s Editorial Spotlight discussion about the next steps after Friday’s school shooting in Newtown, Conn. The Journal News Editorial Board confers with local experts on the whole range of public policy implicated in the attacks — school safety, gun violence, treatment of mental illness, Second… Read More →