NYC schools have few plans to help older students with dyslexia, despite mayor's pledge

Plus: Campus protests after Columbia suspends pro-Palestinian groups [View this email in a browser.]( Gothamist relies on your support to make local news available to all. Not yet a member? [Consider donating and join today.]( [NYC schools have few plans to help older students with dyslexia, despite Mayor Adams' pledge]( [first image]( [Today's newsletter curated by James Ramsay]( Weather: ☀️ Sunny, with highs in the mid 60s. It's Thursday in New York City, where — 18 months after Mayor Eric Adams pledged to transform the landscape for children with dyslexia — the administration has released few plans to help for older students struggling to read. Parents and educators say that since the mayor announced the "largest, most comprehensive approach to supporting students with dyslexia in the United States," elementary school students with the learning disability have seen some changes — but [there has been little to no improvement for middle and high schoolers](. Here's what else is happening: - Hart Island, which served as a potter’s field where the city has buried more than 1 million people since 1869, [opened to the public]( on Wednesday. - Enrollment in New York City public schools [has climbed]( for the first time in eight years. - The driver of a carriage horse that collapsed in Midtown last year has now been [arrested on animal abuse charges](. - Leaders of the city's mental health clubhouses — places where people with serious mental illness can go to socialize and get employment help — fear that [ambitious new requirements]( from the city could force some facilities to close. - Legal papers filed by prosecutors yesterday say that Daniel Penny, the Marine veteran accused of killing a homeless man on the subway in the spring, placed the victim, Jordan Neely, [in a chokehold for approximately six minutes](. - Adeel A. Mangi, an attorney from New Jersey, would become [the first Muslim American to serve on a federal court of appeals]( under a nomination announced yesterday by the White House. - Police said a man was killed in Queens yesterday after [trying to stop a thief]( who was stealing property from his car. - City officials have told about 1,500 migrant families staying in homeless shelters that [they have 60 days to leave]( or reapply for emergency housing. - Have time for a game? Play our mini local news crossword. [Get an email alert]( when a new crossword is published. - Hundreds of Columbia University students and faculty members have been protesting the school's decision last week to [ban two pro-Palestinian groups]( from holding events on campus. - Meanwhile, an Egyptian American student at Columbia is suing a conservative group that has been [driving a truck around campus displaying his and other students’ names]( on a digital billboard — calling them "antisemites" — in the wake of protests about the Israel-Hamas war. - [The FBI is digging for bodies]( at two upstate horse farms as part of an investigation into the Gambino crime family. - Parts of the Port Authority Bus Terminal closed last night while police cleared [a suspicious package](. - Some cannabis entrepreneurs who got their dispensary licenses through New York's program meant to aid people with past drug convictions have wound up with [loans with interest rates as high as 18%](. - A members-only Carbone has [opened in Hudson Yards]( the neighborhood [not everyone]( wants to go to. - The world's largest menorah will once again [light up at Manhattan's Grand Army Plaza]( next month. - Justin Torres won the National Book Award for fiction last night for "Blackouts," his [historical novel about forgotten queer histories](. - "Frozen" is now ten years old, and Disney is still selling approximately [40 Frozen-related dolls every minute](. - The top Formula 1 driver [hates everything]( about this upcoming Las Vegas race. “[I think what they've done here is absolutely fabulous, in that they've made it a respectful sort of place, without a lot of the elements that were obviously disintegrating]( - Barbara Dolensek, an officer of the City Island Historical Society and the Nautical Museum, on [THE RENOVATION OF HART ISLAND]( More from Gothamist [second image]( [The NYC Council voted to turn Nov. 15 into Ol’ Dirty Bastard Day]( Ol' Dirty Bastard, born Russell Tyrone Jones in Fort Greene, would have been 55 years old yesterday. 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