Jabari Brisport, who is running unopposed in November, is expected to become the first Black openly gay member of the New York state Legislature. - NBCOUT
. He said his gentrified Brooklyn district has a high number of charter schools, which, like public schools, take funding from school districts and the state, but are operated independently by nonprofit or private companies.
“You can see when there's no soap in the dispensers for students, or they can’t have textbooks, or there’s overcrowding, and none of this is cool,” he said. “I even see it bleeds over into my students’ home life when, you know, my students are shuffling around from place to place because they don't have stable housing of their own.”Brisport, who grew up in Prospect Heights, Brooklyn, is also a proponent of tenant protections and affordable housing policies.
Brisport’s father, who immigrated to the U.S. from the Caribbean, is a sheet metal worker. His mother, a native New Yorker, is an office manager and member of the Communications Workers of America. “It was always important to them that I have a strong moral compass and do the right thing,” he said of his parents.
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