Melissa Aviles-Ramos

Dec 12, 2024 | nydailynews.com | Eric Adams |Melissa Aviles-Ramos

In our roles as New York City mayor and schools chancellor, we both wear many hats: we are leaders, New Yorkers, and life-long public servants. But perhaps most importantly, we are both parents. As parents, we know there is nothing more fundamental than the safety of our children. Learning simply cannot happen if students are not safe and well. When our public-school parents drop off their children at school each morning, they do so with the trust that their child will be cared for and kept safe.

Oct 29, 2024 | chalkbeat.org | Kalyn Belsha |Jessie Gomez |Melanie Asmar |Melissa Aviles-Ramos

Read in English. Suscríbete al boletín semanal gratuito de Chalkbeat para estar al día sobre los cambios que se llevan a cabo en la educación en los Estados Unidos. Durante las redadas de 2019 en plantas de procesamiento de pollo en el centro de Mississippi, agentes de inmigración arrestaron a casi 700 trabajadores indocumentados, muchos de ellos padres de niños que asistían a escuelas locales.

Oct 29, 2024 | chalkbeat.org | Jessie Gomez |Melanie Asmar |Melissa Aviles-Ramos |Aleksandra Appleton

Sign up for Chalkbeat Chicago’s free daily newsletter to keep up with the latest education news. Chalkbeat Chicago hosted 10 school board candidate forums in early October to ask the people running what they think about big issues facing Chicago Public Schools.

Oct 29, 2024 | chalkbeat.org | Jessie Gomez |Melanie Asmar |Melissa Aviles-Ramos |Aleksandra Appleton

Sign up for Chalkbeat Newark’s free newsletter to keep up with the city’s public school system. Newark organizations are launching an initiative aimed at improving student reading rates and early learning outcomes by supporting educators in tackling the city’s “urgent” literacy crisis.

Oct 29, 2024 | chalkbeat.org | Melissa Aviles-Ramos

First Person is where Chalkbeat features personal essays by educators, students, parents, and others thinking and writing about public education. Long before I was appointed by Mayor Eric Adams to be chancellor of New York City Public Schools, I was the third child of a single mother from Puerto Rico.