After decades of battling with Lower East Side residents who hijacked vacant city buildings to make them their own, the city has agreed to help these renegades turn their squats into their own low-income co-ops.
After years of waiting, the Lower East Side Girls Club has found a home.
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.
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A roundup of likely budget casualties if NYC fails to garner additional funds from Albany and Washington.
Founder, Chhaya Community Development Corporation
A Taoist temple loses its home to developers-and threatens karmic consequences.
Being a landlord might bring in cash, but it’s tough work, in which disaster is always around the corner. One of the city’s most successful nonprofits is giving it a shot anyway.
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