SHOW IBO THE MONEY

Giuliani will like the Independant Budget Office even less when he reads its new report saying his budget numbers are off by hundreds of millions of dollars.

Across the Ages

A Union Settlement program matches kids with community elders, bridging the gap between New York generations.

Independents' Day

Who says overcrowded public schools are the only option for black kids? Increasingly, poor and working-class African American parents are sending their kids to Afrocentric private academies that have taken the idea of “community control” more to heart than the educational bureaucracy ever did.