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Jan 5, 2025 | 
ncronline.org | Tom Deignan
Always a deeply Catholic place, the South Bronx has long been associated with poverty, arson and crime. That's slowly beginning to change, thanks in part to immigrants and Catholic faith leaders.
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Nov 27, 2024 | 
chalkbeat.org | Julian Shen-Berro |Carley Lanich |Chabeli Carrazana |Tom Deignan
Sign up for Chalkbeat New York’s free daily newsletter to keep up with NYC’s public schools. In a surprise move, New York City public schools that enrolled fewer students than projected will not see their budgets slashed midyear, the city’s Education Department announced Wednesday. School funding is typically allocated to schools during the summer based on the city’s projections of how many students are expected to fill their seats.
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Nov 27, 2024 | 
chalkbeat.org | Carley Lanich |Chabeli Carrazana |Tom Deignan |Carly Sitrin
Sign up for Chalkbeat Indiana’s free daily newsletter to keep up with Indianapolis Public Schools, Marion County’s township districts, and statewide education news. This article was originally published by Mirror Indy. When Cristina Llamas-Gonzalez landed an apprenticeship at Plastic Recycling two years ago, she was the only Spanish-speaker in the human resources department.
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Nov 27, 2024 | 
chalkbeat.org | Chabeli Carrazana |Tom Deignan |Carly Sitrin |Alex Zimmerman
This story originally appeared in The 19th and is republished with permission under a Creative Commons license. Subscribe to The 19th’s newsletter here. In the lead up to Election Day, presidential candidates had big ambitions for the future of the child tax credit, which is set to expire next year. That looming deadline means Congress will have to take up the credit in 2025, deciding whether to let it lapse, lock it in as is, or expand it further.
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Nov 27, 2024 | 
chalkbeat.org | Tom Deignan
First Person is where Chalkbeat features personal essays by educators, students, parents, and others thinking and writing about public education. I’d only been a high school teacher for a couple of weeks when one of my ninth grade students approached me to apologize. He’d been loud and disruptive in class, sure, but no more than the other 25 or so Brooklyn teens I was trying — and failing — to educate. But, OK, apology accepted.
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Nov 27, 2024 | 
irishcentral.com | Tom Deignan
An O'Neill to be celebrated: Irish American playwright Eugene O'Neill shone a light on ancient hatreds paving the way for a more open and tolerant society. He died on this day in 1953. Not long ago I stopped at a 7-Eleven just outside the Holland Tunnel. Not exactly the kind of place you expect to get a radical religious message. But, hey, this was on the Jersey side. So you expect the unexpected.
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Nov 11, 2024 | 
chalkbeat.org | Mitzi S. Morris |Tom Deignan |Carly Sitrin |Alex Zimmerman
Sign up for Chalkbeat Indiana’s free daily newsletter to keep up with Indianapolis Public Schools, Marion County’s township districts, and statewide education news. When Lisa Noble recalls trying to help students get financial aid packages last school year, many of her memories aren’t so great.
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Nov 9, 2024 | 
irishcentral.com | Tom Deignan
On November 9, 1960, John F. Kennedy was named the winner of the U.S. presidential election and became the first-ever Irish American Catholic President of the United States. Editor’s Note: Americans went to the polls on November 8, 1960, and the following day, John F. Kennedy was declared the new President of the United States. Today, we reflect on the election of the 35th President of the USA, and his 'Irish mafia' in the White House.
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Nov 1, 2024 | 
commonwealmagazine.org | Tom Deignan |Charles McNamara |Stephen Pope |Regina Munch
Next year marks the thirtieth anniversary of the publication ofThomas Cahill’s bestseller How the Irish Saved Civilization, as well as Noel Ignatiev’s cultural-studies classic How the Irish Became White.
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Oct 22, 2024 | 
irishcentral.com | Tom Deignan
In 1908, acclaimed photographer Lewis W. Hine snapped a simple portrait titled “Irish Steel Worker.” The aged laborer has a weathered face and sad eyes. A pipe sprouts from his mouth. He sports suspenders, a thick handkerchief in his front pocket, and a woolen cap atop his head. Hine, born in Wisconsin in 1874, would go on to become one of the progressive era’s great photographers. As Jacob Riis did a generation earlier, Hine used the camera as a tool to record social inequities and spur reform.
