Attempting to head off the state legislature’s own conclusions on the future of school governance in the Big Apple, the school board in one of the city’s top-ranked districts plans to weigh in this week, and ask that all local boards, itself included, be disbanded.
Barely six years after the city forcibly evicted squatters from five city-owned tenements on the Lower East Side and handed then over to an affordable housing developer, the buildings are right back where they started: on the city’s list of tax-delinquent properties.
After 15 years as chief prosecutor in charge of juvenile delinquency cases in the city Law Department’s Family Court division, Peter Reinharz has said he will step down this month, leaving behind a legacy of favoring imprisonment for young offenders.
An attorney with the Board of Ed is said to be the favorite in a race to fill an empty Queens state assembly seat, that is if Governor Pataki decides he wants it filled.
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