Panel Urges Marshall Plan to Improve Middle Schools
Leave your thoughtsA coalition of community groups is calling for the city Department of Education to develop a Marshall Plan for middle-grade…
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Broader Inquiries Are Urged on Underpayment of Wages
Leave your thoughtsTroubled by what they call a proliferation of wage violations in New York, two dozen immigrant and worker advocacy groups (including Make the Road by Walking) want…
Report Says Immigrant Students Lose in Choice of Schools
Leave your thoughtsImmigrant students in New York City who do not speak English well are being shut out of many of the…
Immigrant Workers Find Support
Leave your thoughtsWhen Mulugeta Yimer, a taxi driver from Ethiopia, thought his employer was cheating him several years ago, he did not…
Banks Press Landlords on Repairs
Leave your thoughtsA coalition of housing advocacy groups and two large banks that hold mortgages on hundreds of apartment buildings in New…
Sources of Help For Immigrants
Leave your thoughtsHospitals in the United States are required to provide emergency care regardless of immigration status. But beyond emergencies, the availability,…
Manhattan: Transgender Worker Fights Arrests
Leave your thoughtsA phone repair worker who is in transition from male to female said yesterday that she had been arrested three…
Translation Dispute Resolved
Leave your thoughtsThe city’s Department of Education will increase funds and tighten regulations for translation services for parents, as part of an…
Tutor Program Offered by Law Is Going Unused
Leave your thoughtsFour years after President Bush signed the landmark No Child Left Behind education law, vast numbers of students are not…
In Modern Rarity, Workers Form Union at Small Chain
Leave your thoughtsAmong the thousands of stores in New York’s low-income neighborhoods, labor unions have virtually no presence, except in a few…