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Protestors refuse Rutgers-Newark’s demand to end pro-Palestinian encampment
✅ The encampment has outlasted Princeton University & Rutgers-New Brunswick. ✅ Organizers at Rutgers-Newark have two sets of demands. ✅ The school did not set a deadline for the encampment to end. Rutgers-Newark has told the organizers of a pro-Palestinian and community encampment to leave the encampment they’ve had up...
Mayor Adams talks early education, college protests
NEW YORK CITY (PIX11) – Mayor Eric Adams joined PIX on Politics to discuss a broad range of topics, including the city’s lifeguard shortage, library funding, waitlists for early education seats and the NYPD’s conduct during college protests. On protests on college campuses, Adams continues to say the NYPD showed a great level of discipline […]
Holocaust museum will host free field trips for eighth graders in New York City public schools
NEW YORK (AP) — A Holocaust museum in New York City will offer free educational field trips to eighth grade students in public schools in a program announced Thursday aimed at combating antisemitism. The program will allow up to 85,000 students at traditional public schools and charter schools to tour Manhattan’s Museum of Jewish Heritage over the next three years, starting this fall. New York City is the largest school district in the nation, serving more than a million students. Organizers say the museum and the new program have the capacity to host up to one-third of the district’s eighth graders each year. City Council member Julie Menin said she raised the idea with the museum after the Oct. 7 Hamas attacks on Israel, in an effort to combat rising antisemitism in the U.S. Incidents targeting Jewish and Muslim Americans have been recorded across the country since the Israel-Hamas war erupted, ranging from offensive graffiti to violence. “We needed a proactive approach to combat this hatred at its roots,” Menin, a Democrat and daughter of a Holocaust survivor, said in a statement. “That’s why I approached the Museum of Jewish Heritage with the vision of a universal field trip program.”
NYC elementary school students exposed to pepper spray
NEW YORK -- Dozens of students and teachers were accidentally exposed to pepper spray at an elementary school in New York City on Thursday. Police and EMS were called after 31 students and nine adults became ill from the irritant in the cafeteria at P.S. 219 in Queens. Pepper spray incident at P.S. 219 in Queens The canister of pepper spray exploded in a student's bag when someone sat on it, according to NYPD.It happened just before 11 a.m. "The safety of everyone in our school buildings is our absolute top priority. A pepper spray device was discharged in a school cafeteria, and all...
N.J. girls basketball legend returns home to coach her alma mater
A New Jersey girls basketball legend is coming back home. Tamecka Dixon, a standout star at Linden High school in the 1990s, was officially hired as the head girls basketball coach at Linden on Thursday, the school announced. “We would like to officially welcome Tamecka Dixon back to Linden to...
Prom 2024: Ridgefield Park Jr./Sr. High School (115 PHOTOS)
Students from Ridgefield Park Jr./Sr. High School celebrated their prom Thursday night at The Grove in Cedar Grove. Dressed to impress, the prom-goers enjoyed the evening as they socialized, posed for photos and danced the night away. SUBSCRIBER BENEFIT: Subscribers can get free unlimited high-resolution digital photo downloads of any...
Track and Field at Hub Stine to Close for Months as Plainfield Schools Begin Renovation Phase II
PLAINFIELD, NJ — Many of Plainfield's walkers and runners will have to find a new place to work out between Memorial Day and Labor Day weekends in Plainfield, according to an announcement today by the Plainfield Public Schools district. Construction of a new turf field and track at the Hub Stine Sports Complex will begin on Friday, May 24. The track and field portion of the complex will close at 11pm on Thursday, May 23, and the Donald Van Blake Tennis Courts will not be affected. This is Phase II of the Hub Stine Sports Complex renovation...
Protestors refuse Rutgers-Newark’s demand to end pro-Palestinian encampment
✅ The encampment has outlasted Princeton University & Rutgers-New Brunswick. ✅ Organizers at Rutgers-Newark have two sets of demands. ✅ The school did not set a deadline for the encampment to end. Rutgers-Newark has told the organizers of a pro-Palestinian and community encampment to leave the encampment they’ve had up...
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