NYC Panel Sends Controversial Message To 8th Graders
Leave your thoughtsA New York City education panel is sending a message to eighth graders: If you do not pass your classes,…
A New York City education panel is sending a message to eighth graders: If you do not pass your classes,…
Tonight, the school system’s Panel on Education Policy, PEP, will vote on whether to add an eighth-grade holdover policy to…
A bitter fight is expected tonight when the Panel for Education Policy votes on whether to hold back eighth-graders who…
Supporters of the mayor’s tough new eighth-grade promotion policy will face off Monday night with critics who think the focus…
Yesterday Mayor Bloomberg signed off on the city’s first law enabling tenants to sue landlords in Housing Court for systemic…
Tenants cheered Mayor Bloomberg yesterday for enacting a law making it easier to bring harassment suits against abusive landlords.** The…
According to the New York Times, a Brooklyn woman told fellow participants at a rally that "her landlord has refused…
Legislation that more clearly defines harassment by landlords has been signed into law by Mayor Bloomberg. City Council Speaker Christine…
Military recruiters are a familiar sight in Bushwick, Brooklyn, a predominately Black and Hispanic immigrant neighborhood where nearly 30 percent…
Mayor Michael R. Bloomberg signed a bill into law on Thursday that for the first time gives tenants the right…