Times Ledger, Friday, Jan 22, 2016 There are over 1,800 public schools serving about 1.1 million students in the city, and only a handful of them have swimming pools—meaning most city kids do not get water safety education.

Because water will play a part in most people’s lives at some point in time, the lack of education is what is so alarming to Orlando Nazario, the aquatics director for The Boys’ Club of New York’s Abbe Clubhouse. Read the story.