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Published: February 22, 2013 Publication: The Village Voice By Jason Lewis So, remember how in December we concluded that there’s nothing that a public school can do to successfully fight off co-locations with other schools? Well, Brownsville Academy High School proved us wrong. Under Mayor Michael Bloomberg’s reign, rulings on co-location proposals seem to be guided by an unspoken scientific law which asserts that a co-location in motion shall remain in motion. But, less tha

Published: February 13, 2013 Publication Daily News By Ben Chapman, Corrine Lestch The plaintiffs argue that sharing space with a charter will jeopardize its formula for success: smaller classes that provide students with more attention Tyrone Francisco (far right, wearing glasses) is one of more than 60 students from Brownsville Academy High School who will be plaintiffs in a suit to block the city from allowing a charter school to share space in the school’s building. The s

Published: February 12, 2013 Publication: Daily News By Tina Moore A group of 11 black and Hispanic supervisors filed suit against the city Sanitation Department Tuesday, saying they’ve been denied promotions because of their race and subjected to a discriminatory “plantation” culture. “We still have a plantation mentality at the Department of Sanitation,” said supervisor Andrenia Burgis, a black veteran employee who joined fellow plaintiffs at a press conference outside the

Published: February 12, 2013 Publication: Silive By Ken Paulsen A federal class-action lawsuit will be announced Tuesday alleging the city Sanitation Department possesses a “plantation mentality” that suppresses the promotions of minorities. The workers say they chose Lincoln’s birthday to announce the suit because Sanitation’s practices violate the 14th amendment, guaranteeing equal protection, which was passed after the Civil War. Mayor Michael Bloomberg and Sanitation Comm

Published: February 1, 2013 Publication: WestView News By Arthur Z. Schwartz I always knew that I had a special tie to Alan Gerson, and it wasn’t because I sat through some of his Fidel Castro length ramblings at Community Board meetings. It was only when Sophie Gerson, his mom, died right at the close of 2012 that I found out she was from the Bronx. Gerson was the child of immigrants and graduated from Walton High School in 1941, the same year as my mom, now 90, who also fou