Each Macy Faculty Scholar engages in activities to enhance their career as an educator, as well as pursuing a mentored educational innovation project at their home institution.
Last month, four former Yonkers Public Schools students graduated from the private liberal-arts college in Vermont's Green Mountains with four-year degrees.
In New York City, an unexpected fight has flared up between proponents of social service-filled “community schools” and the administration of Mayor Bill de Blasio, one of the nation’s most outspoken champions of those schools.