Hollie Slade

The Fight Against Standardized Tests Moves To New York

A crowd of parents, teachers and children gather outside the New York City Department of Education headquarters in Manhattan on Friday afternoon to demonstrate against standardized school testing. (Photo/Hollie Slade via The New York World) A crowd of parents, teachers and children gathered outside Department of Education headquarters in Manhattan on Friday afternoon to demonstrate […]

Hollie Slade
بواسطة Hollie Slade

A crowd of parents, teachers and children gathered outside Department of Education headquarters in Manhattan on Friday afternoon to demonstrate against standardized school testing, following two weeks of exams for children across the city’s public school system. Led by two organizations that lobby against standardized tests, Change the Stakes

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Rebuilding From The Ground Up: Community, Labor Come Together Post-Sandy

Large waves generated by Hurricane Sandy crash into Jeanette’s Pier in Nags Head, N.C., Saturday, Oct. 27, 2012 as the storm moved up the east coast. (AP Photo/Gerry Broome) When Hurricane Sandy hit, nonprofit organizations with close community ties stepped in to provide food and clothing donations as well as check in on elderly and […]

Hollie Slade
بواسطة Hollie Slade
Large waves generated by Hurricane Sandy crash into Jeanette's Pier in Nags Head, N.C., Saturday, Oct. 27, 2012 as the storm moved up the east coast. (AP Photo/Gerry Broome)

When Hurricane Sandy hit, nonprofit organizations with close community ties stepped in to provide food and clothing donations as well as check in on elderly and vulnerable people in the hard-hit waterfront areas. Now, as the city prepares to submit its plans to the federal government on how it will spend $1.77 billion in recovery money, some of

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