The rally on Thursday was the culmination of a project in 10th-grade English classes at Leaders High School in Bensonhurst, Brooklyn.
City officials have looked to peer support models to improve student mental health — training youth to support one another as school communities recover from the pandemic.
The letter from New York officials represents some of the earliest and most forceful pushback to the Trump administration’s threat to state education agencies over DEI efforts.
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