Education

Public Advocate Letitia James filed a lawsuit against the Department of Education today over what she described as a consistent lack of air conditioning on buses that transport disabled children to and from school, as is required by law and the contracts that the DOE maintains with its private bus operators.

"The crux of our work, a huge part of it, is speaking about how higher education isn't something that should be a privilege, it's a right," EIO coalition's Community Organizer, Dionna King.