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Tackling the Reopening of NYC Schools in the Fall: A Dilemma with Many Facets

As I write this article there are news breaks daily; in the latest Mayor de Blasio announced that schools in NYC will open only if the city sustains a coronavirus test positivity rate below 3%. Governor Cuomo has promised “not to use children as guinea pigs”. Parents want their kids back in school but teachers are afraid. And what about the kids’ perspective? Everybody has a different view…..

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Italy’s Education Minister Resigns: the “Elephant in the Room” Is Now Exposed

Mr. Fioramonti’s move not only represents the last headache for the Italian government, hurriedly established by the Democratic Party and the populist Five Stars Movement at the end of the summer, it was also the umpteenth, dramatic wake-up call for the sector of public education, severely wounded by major spending cuts over the last few decades. The Minister had already announced in advance his intention to leave office unless the Government allocated at least 3 billion euros to the school sector. And because this target—that Mr. Fioramonti defined as the “waterline”—wasn’t met, that threat eventually became a reality.

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What the Brooklyn Rally Says About the New Bernie Sanders Campaign

“Too old, too white, too socialist” to become president? The mission of Bernie Sanders’ new campaign will be to repudiate this theory. His first rally of the 2020 race for the Presidency was held on a snowy day at Brooklyn College in New York, not far from where he was born and raised. That’s not a coincidence; neither is it coincidental that the candidate introduced important elements not part of his 2016 platform. Let’s take a look at what’s new.

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