When Maria Jay-Vega came to New York in the early 1980s, she couldn’t understand English–or why the Board of Education was trying to put her son in Special Ed. Now she’s on the verge of founding New York’s first parent-teacher-run school in East Brooklyn.
Asian-American protesters gathered outside an event attended by Gov. Pataki to speak out about welfare reform’s effect on immigrants.
Services for the homeless are cut again in the Mayor’s most recent budget proposal.
Six Brooklyn apartment buildings in bad shape will be transfered from the city to be fixed by a local nonprofit.
Landlords have claimed for years that housing court is stacked against them, but a federal judge has shot down an eight-year-old law suit alleging that tenant friendly court administrators are violating owner’s rights.
A new report lays out the costs of the Governor’s proposed budget cuts for higher education.
A federal judge has ruled against a tenant group assertion that housing court in the city is stacked against renters.
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