Jennifer Hudson Sings at Rally
Grammy- and Oscar-winning star Jennifer Hudson, introduced by two little girls, performed Wednesday for thousands of cheering charter school supporters in Brooklyn.
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Grammy- and Oscar-winning star Jennifer Hudson, introduced by two little girls, performed Wednesday for thousands of cheering charter school supporters in Brooklyn.
Six charter-school leaders are accusing the de Blasio administration of blocking their attempts to open classes inside public-school buildings, forcing minority students to attend “inferior” schools.
Grammy and Academy Award winner Jennifer Hudson will give a musical performance at a massive pro-charter school rally on Wednesday, the Daily News has learned.
A star-studded “Stand For School Equality” rally is set to take place at Cadman Plaza in Brooklyn on Wednesday, Oct. 7.
Jennifer Hudson is billed as the headliner for the event where 15,000 parents, educators and students are slated to call for “an end to New York City’s separate and unequal schools,” according to a press release.
New York City families have had enough. After two years of broken promises by Mayor de Blasio, we’re ready to take a stand.
Bronx Borough President Ruben Diaz Jr. is ending his low-profile support of charter schools by accepting an invitation to be the featured speaker at a pro-charter event Wednesday that is expected to draw thousands in a march across the Brooklyn Bridge to City Hall.
New York’s public-school system is an ongoing horror — one that traps hundreds of thousands of kids in schools that don’t work, “tracked” into dead-end “promotions” to equally bad schools that lead to worthless diplomas and limited economic opportunities for the rest of their lives.
The city’s worst performing schools are the most segregated.
At 283 schools in the bottom quarter of Common Core test scores in Grades 3 through 8 this year, an average 96 percent of kids are black and Hispanic, 2 percent white and 2 percent Asian, city data show.
Sometimes the least surprising news is the most depressing. Reported exclusively Tuesday in the Daily News are the findings of a new report: The nation’s largest school district is effectively two separate systems — one for Asians and relatively well-to-do white children, the other for mostly low-income black and Hispanic children.