In the early 2000s, I was a principal in the Bronx, first at the High School for Law, Government, and Justice and later at the Eagle Academy for Young Men.
SUBSCRIBER ONLY
Fix Albany formula funding NYC schools
More in Opinion
-
![After Daniel Penny, a white subway passenger, subdued and choked a menacing Black homeless man, Jordan Neely, to death last year on a Manhattan train, two weeks passed before Penny was arrested. If the roles had been reversed, Neely would have been in handcuffs before the next train rolled into the station.]( "After Daniel Penny, a white subway passenger, subdued and choked a menacing Black homeless man, Jordan Neely, to death last year on a Manhattan train, two weeks passed before Penny was arrested. If the roles had been reversed, Neely would have been in handcuffs before the next train rolled into the station.")
-
![Mixed messages by Harris is risky]( "Mixed messages by Harris is risky")
SUBSCRIBER ONLY
Mixed messages by Harris is risky
-
![It was a simple request. When I asked Annie Polland, director of the Tenement Museum on New York’s Lower East Side, whether I could bring my undergraduate NYU journalism class to learn about the immigrant experience, she agreed. On one condition. The price of admission wasn’t money. It was a story.]( "It was a simple request. When I asked Annie Polland, director of the Tenement Museum on New York’s Lower East Side, whether I could bring my undergraduate NYU journalism class to learn about the immigrant experience, she agreed. On one condition. The price of admission wasn’t money. It was a story.")
-
![Building a new NYCHA]( "Building a new NYCHA")
