{"id":1465,"date":"2017-10-02T16:47:53","date_gmt":"2017-10-02T16:47:53","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/council.nyc.gov\/press\/?p=1465"},"modified":"2017-10-02T16:47:53","modified_gmt":"2017-10-02T16:47:53","slug":"speaker-mark-viverito-education-committee-chair-dromm-and-the-new-york-city-council-to-hold-hearing-on-bullying","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/council.nyc.gov\/press\/2017\/10\/02\/1465\/","title":{"rendered":"Speaker Mark-Viverito, Education Committee Chair Dromm, and the New York City Council to Hold Hearing on Bullying"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><em>Oversight Hearing Comes on the Heels of the Fatal Stabbing in the Bronx<\/em><\/p>\n<p><strong>City Hall<\/strong> \u2013 Today, Speaker Melissa Mark-Viverito, Education Committee Chair Daniel Dromm and the New York City Council announced the Council will hold an oversight hearing to examine the effectiveness and implementation of the Department of Education\u2019s anti-bullying efforts in City schools<\/p>\n<p>The hearing comes in the wake of a deadly stabbing at the Urban Assembly School for Wildlife Conservation in the Bronx where two students were stabbed, one of them fatally, as early reports indicate the act may have been in retaliation of repeated bullying. The hearing will also provide the Council with an opportunity to examine the DOE response to bullying incidents and the DOE\u2019s efforts to ensure student safety.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThis hearing will give us an opportunity to learn about DOE\u2019s efforts to combat bullying and discrimination, actions it has taken to ensure students feel safe in school, and whether best practices were used in this case.\u201d said <strong>Speaker Melissa Mark-Viverito.<\/strong> \u201cI want to thank Council Member Dromm for quickly calling for this hearing after learning about this and I look forward to learning more about what more we can do to prevent another tragedy like this from happening again.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cPrincipals and teachers still feel unsupported in their efforts to combat bullying in their schools especially as it relates to LGBT issues,\u201d said Education Committee Chairperson Daniel Dromm.\u00a0 \u201cIf we want to eradicate all forms of bullying, we need to stop beating around the bush and directly address these issues.\u00a0 At this hearing, we will examine why there are so few LGBT role models for students as well as the overall effectiveness of the DOE\u2019s anti-bullying programs.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>The hearing will be held on Monday, October 30 at 10:00 AM in Council Chambers.<\/p>\n<p>###<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p><em>Oversight Hearing Comes on the Heels of the Fatal Stabbing in the Bronx<\/em><\/p>\n<p><strong>City Hall<\/strong> \u2013 Today, Speaker Melissa Mark-Viverito, Education Committee Chair Daniel Dromm and the New York City Council announced the Council will hold an oversight hearing to examine the effectiveness and implementation of the Department of Education\u2019s anti-bullying efforts in City schools<\/p>\n<p>The hearing comes in the wake of a deadly stabbing at the Urban Assembly School for Wildlife Conservation in the Bronx where two students were stabbed, one of them fatally, as early reports indicate the act may have been in retaliation of repeated bullying.<\/p>\n<p>&#8230;<\/p>\n<p><strong><small><a href=\"https:\/\/council.nyc.gov\/press\/2017\/10\/02\/1465\/\">READ MORE<\/a><\/small><\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":8,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1465","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/council.nyc.gov\/press\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1465","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/council.nyc.gov\/press\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/council.nyc.gov\/press\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/council.nyc.gov\/press\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/8"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/council.nyc.gov\/press\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1465"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/council.nyc.gov\/press\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1465\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/council.nyc.gov\/press\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1465"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/council.nyc.gov\/press\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1465"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/council.nyc.gov\/press\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1465"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}