Episode Details

Host, David R. Jones, President of the Community Service Society of New York, discusses New York City's legal obligation to provide adequate education to the city's poor with Dr. Roscoe C. Brown, Jr., Director for the Center for Urban Education Policy at the CUNY Graduate School, and Juan Cartagena, Community Service Society of New York (CSS) General Counsel. Dr. Brown, Jr. and Cartagena explain how school governance should incorporate more community involvement. They also describe how school funding should be reformulated to provide schools with funds to meet specific needs.