NYC NOW - September 25, 2023: Morning Headlines

Episode Date: September 25, 2023

Get up and get informed! Here’s all the local news you need to start your day: New York City Schools Chancellor David Banks says there's ample room for the surge of migrant students. Meanwhile, New Jersey begins public hearings tomorrow on its history of slavery. In sports, The New York Liberty fall to the Connecticut Sun in the first of a best-of-5 series, 78-63.

Welcome to NYC Now. Your source for local news in and around New York City from WNYC. It's Monday, September 25th. Here's the morning headlines from Michael Hill. New York City education officials say more than 26,000 new students are attending public schools because of the ongoing migrant crisis. But school's chancellor, David Banks, says, space is not an issue. Speaking on PIX 11, Bank says there's plenty of space for new students.

The trick is making sure that no single school is unfairly overcrowded. I think the bigger message for us is that we don't want anybody to walk away thinking that the migrant kids and their families have somehow presented a problem to us that we can't deal with. The Education Department doesn't ask students about immigration status under sanctuary city policies, but the vast majority of kids who have entered the temporary shelter system are believed to be migrants. A series of public hearings kick off tomorrow in New Jersey to discuss the history of slavery in the Garden State. The New Jersey Reparations Council is a private citizen's effort to prompt a conversation on the potential need for reparations for black New Jerseyans. It's after state lawmakers failed to pass a bill that would have done so. Jean-Pierre Brutus is a senior council with the reparations council.

He says slavery and Jim Crow's segregation caused New Jersey to have some of the worst racial, disparities in America. In order for us to move forward and to build a stronger New Jersey and a stronger future, we need to reckon with our past. Black New Jerseyans are imprisoned at significantly higher rates, numbers show and have significantly lower median household wealth and white families. The Connecticut Sun played stellar defense yesterday at the Barclays Center to win game one in the best of five series against the New York Liberty. Final score, 78 to 63. Third-seeded Connecticut lost all four games between the teams in the regular season, including getting blown out twice in New York. On Sunday, though, the sun turned up their defensive

effort, slowing down the second-seated Liberty and holding them to their lowest point total of the entire season. Brianna Stewart, who led New York with 19 points, had a rough game, going seven for 25 from the field, including missing all eight of her three-point attack. Game 2 Tuesday night at Barclay Center. Your forecast now, 62 with showers out there right now. Today, rain, widespread fog, a high near 61, gusty as well, and then tomorrow's slim chance of afternoon rain, mostly cloudy and 64. Thanks for listening.

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