Author: Hiram Rivera

Hiram Rivera is a coordinator of the Urban Youth Collaborative. Hiram has spent the last two-and-a-half years working with UYC leaders to reform public school education in New York City.
No Transportation, No Education

No Transportation, No Education

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Photos by Jason Masten When budget cuts threatened the program that provides transportation for New York City schoolchildren, Urban Youth Collaborative organized students to fight back. Without the student MetroCard program, which provides free public transportation to and from school, New York City K–12 students living in zones where the schools are severely overcrowded and…

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