Young men hope to be champions. Nonprofits dream of creating an urban Nirvana. In the gritty Bed-Stuy Boxing Center, a different kind of skirmish is playing out.
Take dismal public schools. Add prosperous parents. Shake up. Is a new recipe for revitalizing the city’s education system being written in Riverdale, Park Slope and the Upper East Side?
The nation’s school testing frenzy is failing qualified minority teachers, with little proof that high scores on certification exams have anything to do with good teaching.
The Rent Guidelines Board will go into its first vote of the season on Tuesday short one of two tenant representatives, but the mayor’s office is considering filling the open…
The longtime leaders of two of the city’s major community development groups are moving on, each leaving behind a legacy of affordable housing and retail development in Harlem and Brooklyn.
The latest housecleaning proposal for the state’s courts from Chief Judge Judith S. Kaye is a commission to figure out how to use the Internet to disseminate case information.
