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NYC school principals demand more safety agents, weapons scanning machines

Educators are calling on the city to add more security guards and weapon scanners to make schools safer and address “persistent” delays that lead to fights and poor attendance. On Friday, more than 120 principals, deans, union leaders and other staff members from 84 schools in the four boroughs spoke to officials, including City Council […]

Ocasio-Cortez slams DOGE safety net, veteran's health targets: 'Doesn't get lower'

Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez (D.Y.) criticized some of the Department of Government Efficiency's (DOGE) cost-cutting proposals related to veterans' health care, Medicare, and Social Security. “There is nothing worse than cutting off some of the only lifelines left for veterans, the elderly, widows and people with disabilities,” Ocasio-Cortez said. I wrote in a post on Thursday. […]

NYC puts social justice over child safety with deadly results: ACS caseworker

In October, 4-year-old Germeik Modlin was found malnourished and hypothermic in his family's Harlem apartment with burns to his skin and died hours later in New York City. was shocked. This was just the latest in a long line of children dying despite parental investigations by child welfare officials. Here, an anonymous child protection expert […]