The ratio of students to teachers in the city’s public schools increased 11 percent between 1990 and 1996, despite a $1.1 billion hike in the amount of money spent on school staff, according to a report published last week by the Citizens Budget Commission, a business-backed watchdog group.
In what the city says is a new era of oversight for foster care, several of the city’s largest nonprofit agencies have been put on probation for poor performance.
Two bills on lead paint removal will soon to facing the City Council, which has been slow to fix the city’s broken law on the issue.
They city’s new plan for running AIDS residences might mean a lot fewer apartments for low-income people living with HIV.
An urban reformer has a downsizing dream to give power back to the neighborhoods.
Mayor Giuliani boasts about how well the city’s workfare system works. Now, for the first time, the city might keep track of how well participants fare.
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.
Tenant advocates hoped the City Council would eliminate a 1994 law ended rent protection for luxury apartments, but the measure died last week.
Mayor Giuliani has announced his new housing chief, Richard Roberts.
Affordable housing advocates are wondering when–and if–the city is going to come through in its promise to provide a deep database of housing stats.
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