Manhattan Borough President Gale Brewer called last week for the de Blasio administration to use some of the funding earmarked for Thrive NYC, the mental-health program run in stumbling fashion by first lady Chirlane McCray, toward the $94 million needed to put a full-time Social Worker in the 716 public schools that don’t have one. Her proposal deserves to be part of any budget deal negotiated between the Mayor and the City Council.
Ms. Brewer, one of the city’s most-conscientious public officials, was pressing for more School Social Workers more than three months ago, prior to the exposes in both newspaper stories and a Council hearing of how little has been accomplished by Thrive NYC. It is an issue she has championed for most of this century, and is informed by the experience she has had as a foster parent for more than two dozen children.
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