CPS recently introduced a new initiative aimed at improving academic outcomes for Black students, but the plan has faced opposition.

Suffolk caseworkers said numerous reports of drug use and neglect against Kerri Bedrick were unfounded. NewsdayTV's Shari Einhorn reports.

died last year in a wrong-way crash — had been the subject of CPS complaints between 2018 to 2023. County CPS workers took no action against Bedrick. In a statement Wednesday to Newsday ...