Gigabit Center aims to shrink Bronx’s digital divide
In an effort to address the South Bronx’s extensive digital divide, community activists have banded together to create a solution. A group calling itself The Bronx Digital Equity Coalition is…
Bringing books to Bronx playgrounds
In a borough with 1.4 million residents and just one general interest bookstore, what’s the best way to get kids interested in books? Anthony Tucker, an assistant principal for early…
Charter schools to federal DOE: Where’s our money?
Two South Bronx charter schools are among eight statewide—six in the city and two in Buffalo— that are fighting the US Department of Education to recover nearly $1 million they…
Dyslexia classrooms coming to South Bronx as part of NYC Literacy Initiative
New York City is overhauling how the Department of Education screens and educates students with dyslexia and other language-based learning difficulties, starting with a pilot in second and third grade…
Police or mental health supports in schools? Students prompt debate
Delia Davis –– a high school senior in the South Bronx –– says that as a Black woman, she feels self-conscious passing through metal detectors and encountering the NYPD on…
Helping LGBTQ+ youth in the South Bronx
Noticing the lack of LGBTQ visibility and support as she walked the halls of Bronx Leadership Academy II, dance teacher Belle Torres decided to become an LGBTQ advisor because she…
Haven Kids Rock: ‘Kids coming out of their shell’
On a Saturday morning, 15-year old Timothy Hillard leaves his home in the South Bronx to head towards Mott Haven Academy to attend an after school performing arts program. Once…
This voluntary program uses a peer-led approach to sexuality
Seventh graders at a South Bronx school are getting lessons in sexuality and reproduction through a voluntary after-school program that aims to lower Bronx teen pregnancy rates and address…