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Christina Veiga

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From Chalkbeat New York Diversity & Equity
With Banks and Adams, NYC school integration advocates see an uphill fight
Chancellor David Banks and Mayor Eric Adams say they’ll support school integration efforts, but are focused on building more high-quality schools.
By Christina Veiga
 
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From Chalkbeat New York Diversity & Equity
To expand NYC’s ‘gifted’ programs, one nonprofit turns to after school
New York Edge hopes that after-school programming can expand opportunities to students who are typically underrepresented in NYC’s gifted classrooms.
By Christina Veiga
 
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From Chalkbeat New York Community & Wraparound Programs
‘Still hungry’: Struggling to feed NYC students as pandemic aid wanes
With pandemic-era food assistance winding down, schools and volunteers need help feeding hungry students and fending off food insecurity in their communities.
By Christina Veiga
 
Two preschoolers paint with brushes in purple and turquoise on paper at a desk.
From Chalkbeat New York Politics & Policy
Here’s Eric Adams’ plan for making child care more affordable
The plan calls for helping families access care more easily, expanding services to reach 41,000 more children.
By Christina Veiga and Alex Zimmerman
 
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From Chalkbeat New York School segregation / integration
NYC’s specialized high schools continue to admit few Black, Latino students, 2022 data shows
Overall, high school applications are down amid declining enrollment, but more students are getting accepted into top-choice schools.
By Christina Veiga
 
A boy and girl hold hands facing away as they waltz in a school gymnasium.
From Chalkbeat New York COVID and Schools
Dancing after social distancing: NYC students learn to waltz together again
By Christina Veiga
 
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From Chalkbeat New York Mental Health in Schools
NYC’s controversial social skills assessment helped this Brooklyn school. Getting there hasn’t been easy.
Some blasted NYC’s move to screen all students’ social-emotional skills using an assessment called DESSA. This Brooklyn school has learned to embrace it.
By Christina Veiga
 
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From Chalkbeat New York Diversity & Equity
NYC schools to pilot Asian American studies curriculum
The lessons will roll out as a pilot in fall 2022, with a full implementation planned for 2024.
By Christina Veiga
 
Community members grieve on a sidewalk after a mass shooting in Uvalde, Texas.
From Chalkbeat New York
After Texas elementary school shooting, NYC officials ponder next steps
By Christina Veiga
 
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From Chalkbeat New York School segregation / integration
These schools will host ‘gifted’ classrooms as NYC expands segregated program
NYC education officials are adding more than 1,000 seats, most of them as new programs that start in third grade. The city’s gifted programs are deeply segregated.
By Christina Veiga
 
A mourner draws a heart with a piece of chalk during a vigil in Buffalo after a gunman killed 10 Black people in an attack motivated by racism. The New York education department canceled the history and government regents out of concerns some of the content would “compound student trauma” after the shooting.
From Chalkbeat New York Assessment and testing
After racist Buffalo shooting, NY history Regents canceled due to harmful content
A review of the upcoming history Regents exam after the racist Buffalo attack uncovered materials with “the potential to compound student trauma.”
By Christina Veiga
 
P.S. 241 the STEM Institute of Manhattan could face even more enrollment pressure under the city’s plan to expand gifted programs and change the way students are admitted.
From Chalkbeat New York
Will expanding ‘gifted’ programs help or hurt NYC schools already struggling with enrollment?
By Christina Veiga
 
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From Chalkbeat New York
Backtracking, NYC will consider incumbent superintendents for revamped district leadership roles
By Christina Veiga
 
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From Chalkbeat New York Diversity & Equity
The ‘School Colors’ podcast is back, diving into why a Queens diversity plan failed
By Christina Veiga
 
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From Chalkbeat New York
Splashy initiative to provide $100 million boost for NYC child care
By Christina Veiga
 
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From Chalkbeat New York COVID safety
NYC’s COVID risk rises, but mask mandates haven’t returned to K-12 schools
By Christina Veiga
 
Children coloring at a table while wearing protective face masks.
From Chalkbeat New York Community & Wraparound Programs
New York’s $7 billion deal could pave the way for universal child care
The investment will be spread over four years and could help to stabilize an industry shaken by COVID.
By Christina Veiga and Reema Amin
 
Kindergarten students at Brooklyn School of Inquiry, the first citywide gifted and talented program to join the city’s diversity efforts, learn how to read a number line in Nov. 2016.
From Chalkbeat New York Curriculum and instruction
NYC unveils changes to ‘gifted’ program, adding 1,000 seats to third grade
Admission to gifted kindergarten programs will continue to be based on teacher recommendations, in lieu of admission based solely on a test administered to preschoolers.
By Christina Veiga
 
New York City street scene of businesses with police wearing yellow vests standing on the sidewalk and yellow tape blocking some access.
From Chalkbeat New York
After a spate of violence in NYC, here’s expert advice on how to talk with kids
Even if kids aren’t outwardly saying that they’re frightened, they may exhibit behaviors indicating that they are feeling scared.
By Christina Veiga
 
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From Chalkbeat New York School safety
Shelter-in-place order for some Brooklyn schools after Sunset Park subway shooting
By Amy Zimmer and Christina Veiga
 
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From Chalkbeat New York School segregation / integration
De Blasio promised to overhaul NYC’s ‘gifted’ programs. Chancellor David Banks will likely shift course.
The new mayor and chancellor have indicated that dramatic changes are off the table.
By Christina Veiga
 
A young student wearing headphones and working on a laptop. The foreground is a close up of the child’s head with the laptop in the background.
From Chalkbeat New York School safety
Después de una masiva filtración de datos de estudiantes en NYC, estas son las medidas que puedes tomar para proteger a tu familia
By Christina Veiga
 
A young student wearing headphones and working on a laptop. The foreground is a close up of the child’s head with the laptop in the background.
From Chalkbeat New York School safety
After massive NYC student data breach, here are steps you can take to protect your family
The information of 820,000 current and former students was accessed by a “malicious actor.” We asked experts for tips on what parents should do next.
By Christina Veiga
 
NYC Mayor Eric Adams speaks at a podium during a press conference, in front of a large staircase, as a man wearing a mask and glasses sits on a stool behind him.
From Chalkbeat New York
NYC’s education panel rejects contract, the latest setback for Adams amid his push to renew mayoral control of schools
By Christina Veiga
 
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From Chalkbeat New York
Eric Adams announces appointees to NYC’s education panel — then withdraws one member
The appointments immediately drew ire over anti-gay remarks made by one member and issues of transparency.
By Christina Veiga
 
A young boy sitting in front of a piece of paper dips his brush in paint while at a preschool class.
From Chalkbeat New York COVID safety
NYC plans to drop masks for children under 5 next month
By Christina Veiga
 
A boy receives a dose of the COVID vaccine from a health care professional as a man looks on next to him.
From Chalkbeat New York COVID safety
NYC schools renew vaccination push, facing steep climb to get more shots in arms
Pop-up vaccination clinics begin this week at NYC schools where student vaccination rates lag.
By Christina Veiga
 
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From Chalkbeat New York Politics & Policy
Schools Chancellor David Banks promises to empower NYC principals, borrowing from an old playbook
By Christina Veiga
 
Students stand on a stage in an auditorium.
From Chalkbeat New York Community & Wraparound Programs
NYC brings back Summer Rising, offering academics and enrichment for all students
By Christina Veiga and Amy Zimmer
 
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From Chalkbeat New York COVID safety
With vaccination disparities by race and class in NYC schools, officials look to boost access
By Christina Veiga