Parents file lawsuit against de Blasio to fully reopen NYC schools
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De Blasio sued over remote learning
A new lawsuit against Mayor Bill de Blasio and the NYC Schools Chancellor is trying to force the city s schools to fully reopen by the end of the school year.
NEW YORK - A group of a dozen public school parents from the Upper West Side have filed a lawsuit against Mayor Bill de Blasio and the New York City Schools Chancellor to fully reopen the city s schools for the end of the academic year. We ve seen the damage that remote learning has caused children and working families in NYC, said Natalya Murakver, one of the parents filing the suit.
NEW YORK CITY (WABC) In this episode of Up Close, Meisha Ross Porter s first day as New York City Schools Chancellor is Monday.
She s the first African American woman to serve in the top job of the nation s largest school system.
She s facing a school yard s worth of challenges including more in-person learning amid the coronavirus pandemic, the debate about education equity, and whether to reimagine the gifted and talented programs and a lot more.
Porter discusses those challenges ahead of her first day on the job with Bill Ritter.
Plus, this week marked one year since the original shutdown from COVID-19.
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Meisha Porter’s rise as the next New York City Schools Chancellor is being praised by advocates and lawmakers who see the veteran educator, herself a product of local schools with 20 years of experience at the Department of Education, as an on-the-ground leader ready to reopen the nation’s largest school system still reeling from the pandemic.
With just 10 months before the start of a new mayoral administration, Porter inherits a system in which the pandemic inflamed educational inequities, highlighted by remote learningdifficulties ranging from lack of technological equipment to connectivity issues to disengagement. She’ll have to grapple with school desegregation issues that have dogged Mayor Bill de Blasio and Schools Chancellor Richard Carranza for years, in a sprawling 960,000-student system whose enrollment is 41% Latino, 26% Black, 16% Asian and 15% white.
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Who is Meisha Ross Porter, new NYC Schools Chancellor?
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Who is incoming NYC Schools Chancellor Meisha Porter?
Incoming New York City Schools Chancellor Meisha Porter will be making history as the first African-American woman to hold the post.
NEW YORK - Meisha Ross Porter, who was named as the new New York City Schools Chancellor, has most recently been the Bronx Executive Superintendent.
Porter will become the first Black woman to lead the nation s largest public school district. There are approximately 1 million students in the district.
A native New Yorker raised in South Jamaica, Queens, Porter is the daughter of a teacher and brings 20 years of Department of Education experience to the job.