Public Advocate Letitia James presented four “common sense solutions” to address the city’s shortcomings in supporting homeless students, reports Kings County Politics.

A report by the American Academy of Pediatrics finds that, in spite of being poorer, Hispanic immigrant children experience better childhoods than Latino children born in the United States, El Diario/La Prensa reports.  

BKLYNER speaks to the daughter of Soviet refugees, a teenage political activist who describes herself as a “conservative, female member of Generation Z.”

Black and Hispanic youth continue to account for the bulk of school arrests and summonses, even as the city has reduced the overall numbers in recent years, reports Chalkbeat.

Many Korean adoptees in U.S. families failed to receive U.S. citizenship, and now adoptee rights organizations are pressing for a revision of U.S. law, reports The Korea Times.

At a protest against the president’s decision to end the Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals program, many said they will continue to fight for permanent immigration reform.

Caribbean Life profiles the new vice president of programs and education at the Brooklyn Children’s Museum – Trinidadian-American Daniela Fifi.

A new study says English language learners have a disproportionately low participation rate in career and technical education programs, and don’t have a good completion rate in those programs, Chalkbeat reports.

In a BRIC TV video, two Brownsville teens speak openly about sex and reproductive health.

At a developmental needs conference for Chinese parents in Flushing, a social worker said it is common for parents to turn down special education programs for their children because of the cultural concept of “face,” reports World Journal.

BRIC TV visits Atlas: DIY in Sunset Park, a center to empower immigrant youth by giving them access to legal services and educational opportunities.

Sonia Sotomayor stopped by the 20th annual Thurgood Marshall Junior Mock Trial Program and inspired students who, like her, were raised in Bronx public housing, reports The Bronx Free Press.

A photography student ended up turning a class assignment into a yearlong project that captured youth, friendship and aspirations among six teenagers in Mott Haven, reports The Hunts Point Express.

France-Amérique reports on a play created and performed by students at a Brooklyn school that dramatizes the plight of refugees.

A group of children have written stories of “satellite babies” in the Chinese community here, World Journal reports.