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Early Childhood
What Cuts Will Cost: Children's Learning, Parents' Work
As tabloids celebrate an on-time state budget, a look at what one budget cut at the city level will mean: fewer childcare slots, less school prep for kids and a tough choice for their working parents.
Reading The Political Tea Leaves Of Harlem's State Senate Race
Will charter schools, the age difference between the candidates and Harlem's changing racial and income demographics determine the outcome of the race between Bill Perkins and Basil Smikle?
1,500 Protest Plans To Eliminate 16 NYC Public Day Care Centers
If enacted, the cuts would slash about 2,000 of New York's public day care slots. The city claims less families are using the service.
'There Is No Science': Geoffrey Canada's Philosophy
A Q&A with Harlem Children's Zone founder and CEO Geoffrey Canada.
Building New Capacities
Nonprofits are forced into creative problem-solving, and some of it is working.
A Nurturing Network
Grows In Bushwick
Amid a citywide plan to support a new model for child welfare, a foster parent serves as a recruiter and role model in her neighborhood.
Free Museums Welcome
The Littlest Learners
A culture club brings lower-income families into New York's treasure troves of art and science.
The City's Latest
Hirings and Retirings
Is the Obama administration causing a New York brain drain?...a fresh face at the New York Urban League...MAS is now headed by a "starchitect"...and more.
Among Heartland Homages,
Pols Address Urban Issues
The presidential candidates have staked out very different positions on housing, schools, crime, infrastructure and other issues key to urban America.
Will You Be Studying
Spanish, Or Spanish?
At many public high schools, there's no foreign language available for Spanish-speaking students to learn.
Easier on the Wallet
-- And the Environment
New affordable housing developments claim the mantle of green alongside their luxury counterparts.
WORKING WITHOUT A CONTRACT:
DAYCARE EMPLOYEES PROTEST
Union members want a new contract, restoration of past standards and the budget to match.
KIDS INCORPORATED
New study reveals benefits of investing in early childhood education.
DAY-CARE WORKERS STILL SNUBBED
The city's 7,500 unionized daycare directors and teachers demand a new contract.
ACS NEEDS A “NEW-MAN”: CHILD CARE COMMISH QUITS
Already struggling with tight budgets and policy shifts, the Administration for Children’s Services loses Deputy Commissioner Harvey Newman.
RICHARD M. LASH: 1931-2002
The longtime advocate for low-income New Yorkers with disabilities, and founder of Sinergia, has died. He was 71.
Education
City Limits investigative reporting covers where policy meets pupils: public schools, charter schools, colleges, and greater opportunities.
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An Investigation of Private Consultants in the Bloomberg Administration
