Bianca Fortis

1 week ago | nysfocus.com | Bianca Fortis

At New York Focus, our central mission is to help readers better understand how New York really works. If you think this article succeeded, please consider supporting our mission and making more stories like this one possible. New York is an incongruous state. We’re home to fabulous wealth — if the state were a country, it would have the tenth largest economy in the world — but also the highest rate of wealth inequality. We’re among the most diverse – but also the most segregated.

1 month ago | nysfocus.com | Bianca Fortis

At New York Focus, our central mission is to help readers better understand how New York really works. If you think this article succeeded, please consider supporting our mission and making more stories like this one possible. New York is an incongruous state. We’re home to fabulous wealth — if the state were a country, it would have the tenth largest economy in the world — but also the highest rate of wealth inequality. We’re among the most diverse – but also the most segregated.

1 month ago | thedailystar.com | Bianca Fortis

New York lawmakers are considering weakening the state Education Department’s recent guidelines on yeshivas and other nonpublic schools, New York Focus has learned. Those schools face a looming deadline — June 30 — to prove they offer a “substantially equivalent” education to the state’s public schools, under regulations issued in 2022. A draft bill circulating the legislature would loosen those rules and potentially delay the deadline for some schools.

1 month ago | shorturl.at | Bianca Fortis

At New York Focus, our central mission is to help readers better understand how New York really works. If you think this article succeeded, please consider supporting our mission and making more stories like this one possible. New York is an incongruous state. We’re home to fabulous wealth — if the state were a country, it would have the tenth largest economy in the world — but also the highest rate of wealth inequality. We’re among the most diverse – but also the most segregated.

1 month ago | nysfocus.com | Bianca Fortis

A New York Focus investigation finds that the state can take up to seven years to resolve complaints against educators.