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ВАШИНГТОН-ХАЙТС, Манхэттен — Мужчину ударили ножом в поезде №1 в Вашингтон-Хайтс, и полиция разыскивает нападавшего, которого описывают как постоянного нарушителя порядка на линии метро. Нападение […]
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New York City is hitting a soft reset on its popular universal pre-kindergarten and preschool programs as the two have for years been plagued by long wait lists and a lack of available seats for the communities most in need, city officials announced Thursday.
Yet early childhood education advocates criticized the effort as being “old news” and having “no details.”
The 10-point roadmap for revamping the programs — known as universal pre-K and 3-K — was developed by a joint working group comprised of top officials in Mayor Eric Adams’ administration and City Council leadership. The plan lays out several previously announced steps aimed at improving outreach and better allocating open seats for the programs throughout the five boroughs.
It comes as public schools are set to kick off the academic year next week.
“We are announcing a $100 million investment in a historic plan to fix lingering problems and improve our system,” Adams said during a Brooklyn news conference on Aug. 29. ”This is a reimagining of the entire early childhood education system from the ground up.”
The working group was established as part of the Fiscal Year 2025 budget deal reached by the mayor and council in late June, which included $100 million to fund the plan. It was formed following criticism over the past couple of years that the Adams administration was not doing enough to address the longstanding issue of families in lower-income parts of the city struggling to place their children in seats.
Adams also faced criticism for making substantial cuts to planned expansions of the pre-K and 3-K in recent years.
The plan includes several previously announced initiatives, such as utilizing $5 million to boost outreach to underserved corners of the city, working to reduce the waitlist for special education early childhood slots by bringing an additional 450 seats online this fall and providing free extended hours for nearly 2,000 families enrolled in the two programs.
This effort will be carried out by the Department of Education, the Mayor’s Office of Child Care and Early Childhood Education and the City Council.
“We’re going to hit the streets, meet people where they are, and take them where they ought to be, and not expect them to do it alone,” Adams said of the stepped-up outreach effort. “This is essential to ensure that all families are aware of the early childhood education opportunities and how to apply.”
‘Nobody has seen’ the outreach
However, Rebecca Balin, executive director of the group New Yorkers United for Child Care, blasted the mayor for not offering more details on many of the plan’s key components.
“They’re saying they’re doing outreach, nobody has seen it,” Balin said in an interview with amNewYork Metro. “The other thing that’s really concerning is that he’s saying that there’s full-day, full-year seats, but no details. When are we going to find out about where those seats are going? I mean, the first day of school is around the corner.”
The mayor also noted that all of the roughly 2,400 families who applied for slots in 3-K on time and did not get one in the spring have now received offers. Furthermore, he said the city has added 1,500 3-K seats in “high-demand” areas across the city since the budget was passed.
“We upheld our commitment to make sure that every single child who wants a seat has access to a seat,” Adams said.
But Balin pushed back on those remarks as well, arguing that is not what her organization has heard from many parents.
“They’re saying parents have gotten seats,” Balin said. “Meanwhile, we are still hearing from parents who have either not gotten a seat yet, got seats that they didn’t even list in their top 12, seats that are too far away, or seats that they found out too late, and they already put down thousands of dollars of deposit money for private [programs] so their kid had somewhere to go.”
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Russian President Vladimir Putin’s high-level military purge of his top officials continued on Thursday with the arrest of the country’s former Deputy Defense Minister Pavel Popov.Russia’s Investigative Committee said a fraud case had been opened against Popov, 67, who was removed from his post in J
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Russian President Vladimir Putin‘s high-level military purge of his top officials continued on Thursday with the arrest of the country’s former Deputy Defense Minister Pavel Popov.
Russia’s Investigative Committee said a fraud case had been opened against Popov, 67, who was removed from his post in June after 11 years in the position.
The former deputy defense minister is the latest high-level official linked to former Defense Minister Sergei Shoigu to be caught up in corruption investigations. He faces up to 10 years in jail. A video published by state-run news agency Tass showed Popov being taken to a Moscow court in handcuffs.
Eight military officials have been arrested since April in what has been described as a “cleansing” of the Russian Ministry of Defense, which includes the dismissal of Putin’s long-serving Defense Minister Shoigu in May. Putin replaced him with economist Andrei Belousov.
Newsweek has contacted Russia’s Defense Ministry for comment by email.
Popov is accused of misusing resources meant for a military theme park near Moscow, called Patriot Park, between 2021 and 2024.
“Now this is, of course, a blow to Shoigu,” Tatiana Stanovaya, a senior fellow at the Carnegie Russia Eurasia Center and founder of R.Politik: Reality of Russian Politics, a political analysis firm, said on her Telegram channel of Popov’s arrest.
A number of prominent military officials have been detained in recent months, including former Deputy Defense Minister Timur Ivanov, who was arrested on April 23 on suspicion of taking bribes.
Vladimir Verteletsky, a defense ministry official, was arrested in May, accused of taking a bribe in relation to “work that was not carried out” under a government contract in 2022, according to Russia’s Investigative Committee.
Vadim Shamarin, deputy chief of the Russian General Staff, was also detained in May “in connection with the case of alleged fraud,” Russian newspaper Kommersant reported. Shamarin is reported to be a top aide to Russia’s top general, Chief of the General Staff Valery Gerasimov, and had served as deputy chief of the Russian General Staff since 2021.
Yuri Kuznetsov, the head of the Russia’s Defense Ministry’s personnel department, was also detained in May on suspicion of taking a bribe, while Major General Ivan Popov, who had headed Russia’s 58th Army, was “arrested on suspicion of fraud,” state news agency Tass reported on May 21.
In late July, Andrei Belkov, the director of the Defense Ministry’s Military Construction Company, was accused of abuse of power in the execution of a state defense order, Kommersant reported, citing security agency sources. He was detained for purchasing a tomograph at an inflated price while he was the head of another military organization under the defense ministry—the Main Military Construction Directorate for Special Facilities.
Andrei Soldatov, a leading expert on Russia’s security services, told Newsweek this month that the arrests were likely ordered by Putin himself.
“The FSB and the Investigative Committee do not initiate such investigations/repression—it’s done on the orders coming from the very top, i.e. the administration of the president,” Soldatov said.
“The role of the FSB [Federal Security Service] is to provide compromising material and squeeze more from the arrested during their interrogations,” he said, adding that Russia’s FSB “acts on an ‘object principle.'”
This means FSB officials “work meticulously on the object that needs to be cleansed or put under control,” Soldatov said.
“It could be a region, or a ministry, as with the [Russian Ministry of Defense]—usually, they detain one of several deputies, so they could be interrogated about their superiors and colleagues—that, it is believed, makes sure the ‘object’ is firmly under Kremlin control,” Soldatov added.
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MASPETH — AN IRATE QUEENS woman is seeking payback from the city after being fined $600 over rats living in the roots of a city-owned tree near her Maspeth home, reports PIX News, stemming from complaints that she called in to 311. Esther D’Alia, 91, told PIX that she reported the rats last summer after […]
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GOWANUS — AN AFFORDABLE HOUSING LOTTERY OPENED for the new Gowanus Canal towers at 420 Carroll Street, according to Brownstoner. The development, part of the Gowanus rezoning initiative, offers 89 rent-stabilized, income-restricted apartments, including studios starting at $784 per month. The project, expected to be LEED-certified, features modern amenities like smart controls, WiFi-enabled appliances, a […]
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GOWANUS — AN AFFORDABLE HOUSING LOTTERY OPENED for the new Gowanus Canal towers at 420 Carroll Street, according to Brownstoner. The development, part of the Gowanus rezoning initiative, offers 89 rent-stabilized, income-restricted apartments, including studios starting at $784 per month. The project, expected to be LEED-certified, features modern amenities like smart controls, WiFi-enabled appliances, a […]
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