Earlier this month, NYC Schools Chancellor David Banks shared plans for transforming and rebuilding trust in the city’s programs for students with disabilities. The plan focuses on four programs that have a track record for success:
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Marj Kleinman
This week we welcome Marj Kleinman. Kleinman is a visual storyteller and the founder of Stoop Stories. A lifelong Brooklynite who resides in her childhood brownstone, she has years of stoop-sitting […]
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The gaps in Mayor Eric Adams’ controversial new mental health plan
Mayor Eric Adams’ new initiative to forcibly remove those with serious mental illnesses from the city’s streets and place them in treatment faces backlash from experts
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Cocoa Puzzles pieces together culture and creativity
After seeing the lack of books and toys that depicted children of color, Putrice Thomas took matters into her own hands and launched Cocoa Puzzles, Brooklyn’s very first children’s jigsaw puzzle company that features illustrations that represent all kinds of children of color.
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A BIPOC-centered gift guide for food, spirits and cool stuff
A big part of my identity and those of the two companies I run, Epicenter-NYC and URL Media, is to lift others as we climb. And since we primarily cover, employ and center people of color, spending money on vendors and services that do the same is important to us. I recently wrote that the business case for this “is not rooted in largesse. The reason to support BIPOC brands and vendors is because they are at least twice as good as everyone else.”
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Here’s what you need to know about Hakeem Jeffries, House Dem’s new leader
Brooklyn is in the House; in fact, it’ll be leading the House’s minority faction come next year, as Crown Heights–born Rep. Hakeem Jeffries takes over from Nancy Pelosi as head of the House Democrats, just in time to be relegated to minority leader status as the party passes control over to the Republicans. That’ll mean the Democratic leaders of both houses of Congress will not only be from NYC, but from the same borough, as Jeffries will join Brooklynite and Senate Majority Leader Chuck Schumer.
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Girl Scout cookie season is postponed
Girl Scout cookie lovers will have to wait a little longer this time around for their Samoas and Thin Mints. Little Brownie Bakers, the baker for Girl Scouts of the USA, has decided to postpone its infamous cookie season to March. The decision was made to avoid delayed or incomplete deliveries.
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Public school application website crashed day before deadline
Many parents who waited until the last minute to submit their middle and high school applications by Dec. 1 faced issues due to high traffic.
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OFF-BRAND EXHIBIT at A.R.T.
The group show of 27 Queens artists opens this Saturday, Dec. 10, at A.R.T. (Art Retail Therapy) store on 84-26 37th Ave. in Jackson Heights and runs through Jan. 28. The show is curated by JHAT (Jackson Heights Art Talks) in partnership with local art store and community art space, A.R.T. The Dec. 10 opening starts at 7:30 p.m. with a performance by John Bjerklie, a.k.a. “BigHat,” who will, according to the press release, “square off with visitors to paint each other’s portraits in a mock studio installation constructed of easels, pallets, and drop cloths.”
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Balbir Krishan
Balbir Krishan was born in 1973 in Bijrol, a farming village in Uttar Pradesh, India. He earned his master’s degree in visual arts (1997) and a postgraduate degree (2004), both […]
