President Bush’s effort to give low-performing schools a boost could be a bust for kids in New York City, where program registration delays have left families without time to get their children into a program that suits their needs. And for those who do get in, a slim budget could leave students with only a few extra hours of tutoring for the entire year.
As part of a shift in the city’s workforce development policy, the Human Resource Administration will soon require that the job trainers it contracts with take on a lot more clients on public assistance. Since their city contracts are based on how long their clients keep a job, these companies fear that with so many hard-to-employ clients, their businesses may be in trouble.
Refusing to let their community lose any more affordable apartments, a group of Washington Heights residents is taking on the landlords who have illegally converted their ground floor units into small businesses.
Speaker Gifford Miller sees a Paris-style public market in Lower Manhattan.
People living with drug addiction get new treatment options that may allow them to avoid the frustrations of methadone.
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