We care!

Making Policy Public

We care!

Language Rights are Civil Rights!

Public Access Design

Language Rights are Civil Rights!

What Is Zoning?

Envisioning Development

What Is Zoning?

Participatory Budgeting

Technical Assistance

Participatory Budgeting

Your Guide to Welfare in NYC

Making Policy Public

Your Guide to Welfare in NYC

Voice Recognition

Urban Investigations

Voice Recognition

Print The Good, Bad, & Unknown

On September 7, 2017, Chancellor Carmen Fariña of the New York City Department of Education (DOE) sent families a letter to introduce the updated Citywide Behavioral Expectations to Support Student Learning (Discipline Code) for students K-12. The letter encouraged families to read a total of 80 pages on disciplinary responses and interventions. What are the standards of student behavior? What are the consequences? Who decides?

In the spring of 2018, CUP collaborated with Teaching Artist Nupur Mathur and public high school students from the KAPPA International High School in the Bronx to investigate these questions.

Students got out of the classroom to survey their school community on student rights and responsibilities, and interview key DOE staff on school safety. This newspaper is a guide to what students learned about the Discipline Code, how it impacts students and their families, and what it means for the future of their school.

What Is Mandatory Inclusionary Housing?

Envisioning Development

What Is Mandatory Inclusionary Housing?

Don't Get Iced

Public Access Design

Don't Get Iced

New School on the Block

City Studies

New School on the Block

Get Support in Housing Court

Making Policy Public

Get Support in Housing Court

Blunt Conversations

Urban Investigations

Blunt Conversations

Can You See My Screen?

Urban Investigations

Can You See My Screen?

Innocent Until Proven Risky

Making Policy Public

Innocent Until Proven Risky

Whose Art?

City Studies

Whose Art?