Richard Buery Featured in City Hall News Story

A Class By Himself

Children’s Aid Society’s Richard Buery jumps into the business of schooling

As the youngest person to head the Children’s Aid Society in 150 years, Richard Buery Jr., 39, arrived on the scene with a vision of social entrepreneurship. A Brooklyn native, Buery spent his years after Harvard and Yale Law School founding two companies aimed at helping needy children and their families. He spoke candidly about his educational vision for the city’s most vulnerable children, and about how New York’s government is failing to do its part to help those children succeed academically and professionally. What follows is an edited transcript.

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