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see their positions on wait lists
online and may be offered seats
if they become available.
The timeline will be similar,
with applications due in De-
cember, and offers released in
March. The appeals process will
stay the same for families with
travel, safety or medical hard-
ships and other disabilities.
Tazin Azad, a mother of
three and Parent Association
leader at M.S. 890 in Brooklyn,said appealing her eighth-
grade son’s placement when
he was trying to get into his
preferred middle school was
stressful. With her younger
children facing applications in
the coming years, she said, “It
will be one simple process and
that’s a big, big relief.”
Elissa Stein, an independent
counselor for public school ad-
missions, said the change
sounds good, but she is con-
cerned about possible technicalglitches because the education
department’s new web tools ha-
ven’t always had smooth roll-
outs. “Unless this is well oiled
and works well, it could poten-
tially cause even more stress
for kids and parents,” she said.
Department officials said
they worked with the vendor of
the MySchools portal and they
are confident the system will
meet the needs of families.
Typically, about half the ap-
plicants get into their topNew York City families un-
happy with their offers to pub-
lic middle and high schools will
have a new process involving
wait lists to get different place-
ments, officials said Thursday.
The city’s complex school-
choice system, in which stu-
dents rank their preferences and
hope to get their top picks, has
long been daunting for many
families. Mayor Bill de Blasio
said this change would make it
easier to get new placements.
In recent years, applicants
who didn’t like their middle-
school assignments—given in
spring for entry in Septem-
ber—would have to go through
an appeals process. High-school
applicants disappointed with
their offers would have to sub-
mit a second round of applica-
tions and then appeal if neces-
sary.
Under the new Department of
Education system for fall 2020,
students automatically will be
placed on wait lists for each
school ranked higher on their
applications than the schools
BYLESLIEBRODY
GREATER NEW YORK
choices when they first try, of-
ficials said. This spring, about
9,000 eighth-graders disap-
pointed by their first match,
roughly 10% of applicants, got
new seats in a second round of
admissions. About 2,000 pro-
spective middle-school stu-
dents got new seats this
spring through the appeals
process, officials said.
In the new system, parents
could add students’ names to
wait lists. For schools with se-
lective academic criteria or au-
ditions, students can go on wait
lists only if they meet the admis-
sions requirements. The depart-
ment will stop the wait lists in
September to avoid having mu-
sical chairs stretch into the fall.
Admissions have been a
fraught issue, with many par-
ents complaining that the as-
signment process is opaque.
After District 15 in Brooklyn
launched a lottery system for
middle-school applicants this
year, for example, some parents
expressed frustration that they
weren’t told their students’ lot-
tery numbers, which they said
would let them challenge their
placements more easily.
Chancellor Richard Carranza
has questioned the rationale for
having schools select candidates
by their academic records. He
has argued that public education
should be more open to all.New School-Admissions Process on Tap
System for fall 2020,
automatically would
put New York City
students on wait lists
Gov. Andrew Cuomo on
Thursday proposed a new
state law to specifically penal-
ize domestic terrorism, a re-
sponse to recent mass shoot-
ings and what the Democratic
governor said was inaction on
the part of federal officials.
During a speech in Manhat-
tan, Mr. Cuomo said the mass
shootings in El Paso, Texas,
Pittsburgh and Orlando, Fla.—
where gunmen chose their tar-
gets based on ethnicity, reli-
gion and sexual orientation—
should be thought of in the
same way as the Sept. 11, 2001,
terrorist attacks by al Qaeda.
“It is now a two-front war
on terrorism. It is fed by hate:
hate from abroad, and hate
right here at home,” Mr.
Cuomo said.
A text of the legislation
wasn’t released, but the gover-
nor said it would create a new
charge for “any person who
kills in a mass attack on the
basis of race, religion, creed or
sexual orientation.” The maxi-
mum punishment would be life
in prison without parole, the
governor said.
Though there is a definition
of domestic terrorism in fed-
eral law, it isn’t a chargeable
crime. The Justice Department
has recently been more willing
to use the term domestic ter-
rorist, a label it applied to the
accused shooter in El Paso, al-
though he hasn’t been charged
by federal prosecutors.
Mr. Cuomo said the pro-
posed law would be the first of
its kind in the country. He also
challenged the federal govern-
ment to enact gun-control
measures, including broader
background checks and re-
strictions on assault weapons.
New York created a new
terrorism crime in the wake of
the 9/11 attacks on the World
Trade Center. It applies to vio-
lent acts like murder and kid-
napping when they are in-
tended to “intimidate or
coerce a civilian population”
or influence government pol-
icy. Committing murder in fur-
therance of terrorism is pun-
ished by life in prison without
the possibility of parole.
The governor’s aides said the
new bill would essentially apply
the standard for a hate crime—
a higher charge available to
prosecutors if a crime was com-
mitted based on a characteristic
like a victim’s race or religion—
to an incident in which at least
one person was killed and at
least two others were at-
tempted to be murdered.
Representatives for Assem-
bly Speaker Carl Heastie, a
Bronx Democrat, and state
Senate Majority Leader An-
drea Stewart-Cousins, a Demo-
crat from Yonkers, condemned
the recent mass shootings and
said they would work with the
governor on his proposal.BYJIMMYVIELKINDTreat Mass
Shootings
As Terror,
CuomoSays
The trade war between the
U.S. and China has led to an
unlikely side effect: Some food
banks in New York are burst-
ing at the seams.
Since last summer, the
state’s largest regional food
banks have been taking and
distributing additional food
that the U.S. government has
bought from farmers in re-
sponse to China and other
countries levying retaliatory
tariffs against American goods.
Last year, the U.S. Depart-
ment of Agriculture launched
a trade-mitigation package
aimed at assisting farmers
suffering from retaliatory tar-
iffs that has left them with an
overabundance of food and
farm goods. Under the pro-
gram, the USDA identifies and
purchases commodities from
farmers, then coordinates with
state agencies to distribute the
additional food to food banks.
The extra inventory has
overwhelmed some food banks.
The Food Bank of Central
New York uses more than
75,000 square feet in storage
space in Syracuse to collect,
store and distribute food to 11
counties statewide.
While an abundance of food
is a good problem to have, the
influx was an unintended and
unexpected consequence of the
tariffs, said Kathleen Stress,
executive director at the food
bank. “This is significantly
more than has been normally
distributed per year, but the
size of our facility hasn’t
changed,” she said.
The food bank received 4.
million pounds of USDA com-
modities this fiscal year, com-
pared with 3.5 million pounds
the previous year, Ms. Stress
said.
Storing more food in the
warehouse and staggering deliv-
ery of products for partner
agencies such as food pantries
and food kitchens has been chal-
lenging for the food bank. She
said the food bank has reconfig-
ured its warehouse to accommo-
date the additional poundage.
More administrative assis-
tance and volunteers areneeded to manage the influx.
The average monthly cost to
manage trade-mitigation prod-
uct is about $40,000 a month,
Ms. Stress said. “It’s nutritious
food, so we would never turn
it away,” she said. “But it is a
lot of food.”
Catherine Shick, the com-
munications director at Feed-
More Western New York, an
organization that combines
the regional Food Bank and
Meals on Wheels, said that
since the USDA program
launched her food bank has re-
ceived nearly $2 million intrade-mitigation products such
as produce and proteins.
FeedMore, which has a
51,834-square-foot facility to
store dry, refrigerated and fro-
zen food in Buffalo, now plans
ahead before accepting addi-
tional deliveries from the state
agencies distributing the
trade-mitigation food, Ms.
Shick said. “The biggest chal-
lenge does really come from
the fact that we are operating
at capacity,” she said.
Margarette Purvis, CEO of
Food Bank for New York City,
said the organization used itsexisting programs to target ar-
eas that are most in need of
more food, and remained sen-
sitive to delivering appropriate
products to communities with
certain dietary restrictions.
The Food Bank, which has a
90,000-square-foot warehouse
in the Bronx, has received 15.
million pounds of food due to
the program.
“Did it absolutely test food
banks and some of our mem-
bers? Absolutely,” Ms. Purvis
said. “Was the test at the end
of the day worth it to us? Yes,
it was.”BYALEXAST.JOHN
Some Food Banks Reap Benefits of Trade War
Justin Spencer recently shopped at a supermarket-style food pantry called the Bed-Stuy Campaign Against Hunger in Brooklyn.ski slopes and, of course,
shopping. Participating retail-
ers include Saks Fifth Avenue,
Barneys New York, Tiffany &
Co., H&M, Zara and Uniqlo.
Some stores won’t be open un-
til next year.
The mall is expected to bring
17,000 jobs in total to the area,
an American Dream spokesman
said. The positions range from
lifeguards and security guards
to amusement-park engineers
and customer service, accord-
ing to Amina Bey, executive di-
rector of the Newark Workforce
Development Board.
“There is something here for
everyone—every skill level andevery education level,” Ms. Bey
said. Organizers expected 1,
job-fair attendees Thursday.
Anthony Mosley, a job appli-
cant residing in Newark, said
he learned about the career fair
via social media and decided to
apply for a security position
because he wants to keep the
community safe. He said he is
ready for a new adventure.
“I have never heard of any-
thing like this, so it is going to
be a shock,” he said. “I have
never snowboarded before, but
I would love to take a chance.”
Rahaman Muhammad, New-
ark’s deputy mayor of employ-
ment, said it was an excitingemployment opportunity for
residents. He said he recently
toured the new facility.
“When you walk in a malland you see a big water park,
amusement rides going
through the roof, roller coast-
ers—that is not a normal thingyou see,” Mr. Muhammad said.
American Dream first broke
ground in 2003 as Xanadu. Lo-
cal and state officials have long
envisioned it as an economic
anchor for the Meadowlands.
The area, a former landfill site,
has undergone extensive envi-
ronmental cleanup and now
has more than 3,500 acres of
protected wetlands.
Most job candidates regis-
tered, identified their areas of
interest, visited stations for
each field and submitted résu-
més while attending on-the-
spot interviews. A lucky few
were hired by the time they
left the job fair.Kayla Jussim, of South Or-
ange, N.J., said she loves work-
ing in the retail field, where she
has held her last three jobs. She
said her job coach suggested
she apply at American Dream.
Newark resident Carol
Crawford said she hopes this
will be the start to her path
out of poverty and saving up
for her dream home. To pre-
pare, she visited the nonprofit
Dress for Success shop, where
she was given her first suit,
which she proudly wore to
Thursday’s interviews.
“They are looking for many
things, so this is a golden op-
portunity,” she said.NEWARK—It has been a
long haul, but the American
Dream is finally getting close
to becoming reality.
Representatives from the
megamall, located in East Ruth-
erford, N.J., held a job fair here
Thursday to begin the process
of staffing the 3-million-square-
foot destination ahead of its
planned October opening.
The megamall, built by Ca-
nadian developer Triple Five,
will include a Nickelodeon
Universe theme park, Dream-
Works water park, profes-
sional-size skating rink, indoor
BYACACIACORONADO
American Dream Megamall Lures Job-Seekers Before Fall Opening
KELLYANN PETRY FOR THE WALL STREET JOURNALTazin Azad, a leader of the Parent Association at M.S. 890, is hopeful that the new system will work.The positions range
from lifeguards and
security guards to
customer service.LESLIE BRODY/THE WALL STREET JOURNALNY