This weekend, hearken to a group of narrated articles from round The New York Instances, learn aloud by the reporters who wrote them.
For a whole bunch of poor households in Bastrop, Texas, a rural district outdoors Austin, Norma Mercado is a one-woman rescue squad — a supply of meals, garments, transportation and counsel — with a present for maintaining homeless college students at school. She can also be a reminder of the size and complexity of pupil homelessness and an exemplar of a little-known federal program that’s all of a sudden awash in funds to assist deprived college students succeed.
Below a 1987 legislation now often known as the McKinney-Vento Act, each faculty district should appoint a “liaison” like Ms. Mercado to guard homeless college students’ rights. However till now solely about one district in 4 acquired cash for the work. With faculty closures from the pandemic harming poor college students, Congress final yr accredited $800 million in new grants, greater than tripling the funding for 3 years and auguring an period of innovation in companies for homeless kids.
“It’s like profitable the lottery,” Ms. Mercado mentioned.
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Written and narrated by Corina Knoll
Their plans had been daring, with no room for devastation.
They would go away their hometown and journey 6,500 miles to New York Metropolis collectively and take jobs, any form, that allowed them to ship a reimbursement to household. Finally, they’d return to take pleasure in grandchildren whose school funds they’d helped present, whose futures would burn brilliant.
GuiYing Ma and her husband, Zhanxin Gao, had ventured out of their metropolis of Fushun, in northeastern China, solely a handful of occasions. However in 2017, the couple, at 56 years outdated, determined to use for visas in hopes of constructing the type of cash that was out of their attain in China.
They went on to construct a modest lifetime of service in New York — till a surprising assault tore them aside.
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Written by Dana Goldstein and Stephanie Saul | Narrated by Dana Goldstein
After the Florida Division of Training just lately rejected dozens of math textbooks, the large query was: Why?
The division mentioned among the books “contained prohibited subjects” from social-emotional studying or essential race idea — nevertheless it has launched solely 4 particular textbook pages exhibiting content material to which it objects.
Utilizing on-line pattern supplies offered by publishers to Florida faculty districts, The New York Instances was capable of overview 21 of the rejected books and see what might have led the state to reject them.
In many of the books, there was little that touched on race, by no means thoughts a tutorial framework like essential race idea. However most of the textbooks included social-emotional studying content material, a observe with roots in psychological analysis that tries to assist college students develop mind-sets that may help educational success.
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Written by Julie Bosman, Sophie Kasakove, Jill Cowan and Richard Fausset | Narrated by Julie Bosman
Simply as quite a few main cities try to lure folks again to previously bustling downtowns, leaders are confronting transit crime charges which have risen over prepandemic ranges in New York Metropolis, the San Francisco Bay Space, Philadelphia and Los Angeles. Earlier this month, a taking pictures on a subway prepare in Brooklyn injured 23 folks. In different cities, tales of violent assaults, muggings and stabbings on buses and trains dominate the night information and nervous conversations in neighborhood apps.
Low ridership has left many passengers saying they really feel extra susceptible than earlier than.
The disaster on public transit methods threatens the nation’s restoration from the coronavirus pandemic.
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Written and narrated by Noam Scheiber
Over the previous decade and a half, many younger, college-educated employees have confronted a disturbing actuality: It was tougher for them to succeed in the center class than for earlier generations.
Members of this college-educated working class usually earn much less cash than they envisioned after they went off to high school. In lots of instances, they’ve endured bouts of unemployment. And so they complain of being trapped in jobs that don’t make good use of their abilities.
The change has had profound results, driving shifts within the nation’s politics and mobilizing staff to demand fairer therapy at work. It could even be prompting a once-in-a-century revival of the labor motion.
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The Instances’s narrated articles are made by Tally Abecassis, Parin Behrooz, Anna Diamond, Sarah Diamond, Jack D’Isidoro, Aaron Esposito, Dan Farrell, Elena Hecht, Adrienne Hurst, Elisheba Ittoop, Emma Kehlbeck, Marion Lozano, Tanya Pérez, Krish Seenivasan, Margaret H. Willison, Kate Winslett, John Woo and Tiana Younger. Particular due to Sam Dolnick, Ryan Wegner, Julia Simon and Desiree Ibekwe.
