Tag: Public Schools

New York City Begins Trial to Connect Public Schools Directly to 911

New York City has launched a new pilot program that provides a direct connection to selected public school buildings to 911 dispatchers in hopes it will provide more effort towards improving the emergency response times. Mayor Eric Adams and city officials announced this on Monday, describing it as the first program of its kind in […]

Free Swim Lessons Should be Offered in School as Reparations to Black Families

Free Swim Lessons Should be Offered in School as Reparations to Black Families

During slavery and Jim Crow, black people were barred from learning how to swim as a means to handicap them and have them remain reliant on their owners and limit their freedom. After slavery and segregation ended, black people were terrorized by white pool-owners for taking up spaces in supposedly public pools. There are images […]

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