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NYC Title IX coordinators get added funding

New York City has granted the New York Department of Education additional funding for Title IX coordinators for the 2020 fiscal year. This comes after Girls for Gender Equity, a non-profit, partnered with students to campaign for the funding. Brittany Brathwaite, the organizing and innovation manager with GGE joined CBSN to talk about the initiative. She was joined by Yazmin Abdullah, one of the students who helped organize the campaign.

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Local leaders push back against ICE raids

Beginning Sunday, federal agents will begin a nationwide effort to arrest immigrants who have been issued final deportation orders. The raids will target ten major cities, and will focus mainly on Central American families that crossed the U.S. border with Mexico. President Trump says the crackdown is meant to remove criminals from the country -- but the leaders in some of these cities, like New York City and San Francisco, are pushing back against the effort. Laura Podesta reports.

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