Coronavirus: New York Won’t Close Schools Because Homeless Kids Have Nowhere Else to Go

For many thousands of students across New York City and the United States, school is the only place they receive regular meals, shelter, medical care, and other vital services.

Alan Macleod
By Alan Macleod
coronavirus New York Feature photo

As the number of cases of COVID-19 in the tri-state area rises to over 150, Governor Andrew Cuomo has declared a state of emergency across New York State. Local universities like Hofstra, Columbia and Yeshiva have shut their doors on students today. But the city has no plans to close public k-12 schools – because tens of thousands of homeless

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From Students to Child Soldiers or Teen Brides: The War’s Cruel Impact on Yemen’s Children

“It is rare to find a normal child, even among kindergarteners. Both at home and at school; words like surrender, warplane, shoot, enemy, kill, and Kalashnikov are often heard as children play together.” — Yemeni social worker Asma Juhaff.

Ahmed Abdulkareem
By Ahmed Abdulkareem
saudi arabia

SADAA, YEMEN -- September is the month when students around the world head back to school and, despite enduring years of brutal war, Yemen’s children are no exception. In the Khulah School in the northern city of Sadaa, fifth-grader Saleem Ahmed Mutaher sits on the floor with about 70 other students, his mind distracted by the pain of sitting on a

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Cops Rebranded as “School Resource Officers” Can Injure and Criminalize Schoolkids

The over-reliance on law enforcement in the nation’s schools is reflective of a national attitude — one that is in dire need of adjusting.

Thandisizwe Chimurenga
By Thandisizwe Chimurenga
A Douglas County Sheriff sits in on part of an art class at Buffalo Ridge Elementary School, part of a new cooperative effort between law enforcement and schools for more routine police presence at local elementary schools, in Castle Pines, Colo. (AP/Brennan Linsley)

SAN DIEGO, CALIFORNIA – Last month a video emerged of a La Mesa police officer violently slamming a 17-year-old student onto the ground at a San Diego charter school. The juvenile, who had complained of feeling ill, was accused by a teacher of being on drugs. When the student consented to a search of her belongings, no drugs were found but some

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WATCH: Big Oil Teaching Love Of Oil Inside Public Schools

Oil companies are capitalizing on under-funded schools to push a revisionist, pro-fossil-fuel agenda.

Redacted Tonight
By Redacted Tonight

The “Oil to School” pipeline, the fossil-fuel industry’s effort to pour pro-petrol propaganda into K-12 classrooms, is more widespread and pernicious than previously thought, a new investigation shows. Oil can exploit the fact that schools are underfunded, and provide resources and then take the opportunity to write the resources which somehow

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2,000 Seattle Teachers Wear Black Lives Matter Shirts At School

Schools across the city saw teachers participating in rallies under the banner “Black Lives Matter at School” to urge racial justice in U.S. education.

teleSUR
By teleSUR
Teachers at a Seattle school pose for a photo as they sport Black Lives Matter shirts and banners. | Photo: Twitter / @seapubschools

At least 2,000 Seattle teachers sported Black Lives Matter shirts at schools across the city Wednesday as part of several rallies under the banner of “Black Lives Matter at School” in order to push for racial justice in education in the United States. The purpose of the day was to affirm that “Black lives matter in the public schools,” according

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Up To 14 Million Children Exposed To Toxic Industrial Chemicals In Schools

Harvard researchers estimate toxic PCBs may be present in up to 26,000 U.S. schools.

Nika Knight
By Nika Knight
Syria

Millions of children in the U.S. are being exposed to deadly polychlorinated biphenyls, or PCBs, in their schools, despite the fact that such chemicals have been banned for decades. That's according to a new report from Sen. Ed Markey (D-Mass.) that analyzed Harvard research and Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) data, and which also

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