Required Resources
Read/review the following resources for this activity:
- Textbook: Chapters 1, 2
- Lesson
- Local newspaper
- APA style manual
- Citation and Writing Assistance: Writing Papers At CU (Links to an external site.)
- Library Overview (Links to an external site.)
- How to Search for Articles – the Everything Tab (Links to an external site.)
Instructions
Find an article in your local newspaper about a local policy issue that affects you. For example, an article concerning your county’s decision to privatize your trash collection service. Summarize the article and explain how this issue affects you. Is the article neutral? Why or why not? How might you influence this policy in the future?
Be sure to include a scanned copy of the article in your submission in addition to citations. Articles may not be more than one month old.
Writing Requirements (APA format)
- Length: 3 full pages (not including title page or references page)
- 1-inch margins
- Double spaced
- 12-point Times New Roman font
- Title page
- References page
Solution:
Current Event – Local Issue
For this assignment, I chose to work on an article published by Chalkbeat. It is titled “Turning up the pressure for integration, NYC students plan citywide school boycott”. The said article was written by Christina Veiga on 5th February, 2020. It explores New York student’s preparation for a boycott citing what they call segregation in the education system. The author of the article is a reporter for Chalkbeat and reports on educational matters arising in New York. Prior to this, she was a reporter for Miami Herald where she also covered news in and around K-12 education. Chalkbeat majors in reporting on education issues across local American communities. It aims at informing better practices and policies for better educational outcomes. I found this article to be credible and reliable owing to the company’s and reporter’s authority on educational matters. Herein, I provide a summary of the article, assess how the issue of segregation in New York schools affects me, neutrality of the article, and how I can influence the policy in the future.
Summary of the Article
Students in New York City have been boycotting school for over two months now. As they walk out of class, different campuses each week, they continue to call for Mayor Bill de Blasio to do away with the current segregated education system (Veiga, 2020). In Manhattan, for instance, students from one of the Manhattan campuses protested against segregation of students into different schools albeit in the same building. Another school also protested claiming that predominantly Hispanic and black schools have little access to sporting teams. Moving away from the separated protests, New York City students now plan on participating in a citywide protest(Veiga, 2020). These protests will be organized and led by Teens Take Charge and…..Please click the icon below to purchase full answer at only $10