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Published: March 26, 2014 Publication: NY Post By Carl Campanile Top allies sued Mayor de Blasio Wednesday to overturn his decision to open 14 charter schools in city-owned buildings this fall. The chief plaintiffs include Public Advocate Letitia James, Council Speaker Melissa Mark-Viverito and eight other city council members, The Post has learned. About 70 parents and advocacy groups — including NYC Parents Union and Class Size Matters — also joined the suit filed in Manhat

Published: March 24, 2014 Publication: The Chief By Mark Toor Black and Latino supervisors in the Sanitation Department who are suing the agency, charging that it discriminates in discretionary promotions to the higher ranks, rallied at City Hall March 16 to urge that the lawsuit be settled in their favor. Their attorney, Arthur Schwartz, called DSNY “a bastion of racial discrimination” that “runs deeper than in any other department in the city.” http://thechiefleader.com/new

Published: March 18, 2014 Publication: NY Post By Carl Campanile A day after getting slapped with a federal lawsuit from charter school parents for canceling classroom space for their kids, Mayor Bill de Blasio got hit from the other side — public school parents claiming he did too much for charters. More than 50 parents and education activists back a lawsuit filed by Public Advocate Letitia James and City Council Speaker Melissa Mark-Viverito to overturn all charter school “

Published: March 6, 2014 Publication: The Villager By Arthur Z. Schwartz BY ARTHUR Z. SCHWARTZ  |  We Villagers like to think of ourselves and our community as something exceptional. If fact, it was the only community in the city where constituents tried to declare an independent republic. (That was in 1917 for history buffs.) And we have been, during the last 50 years, more successful than most communities at preserving our character — with a few glitches here and there. But

Published: March 5, 2014 Publication: NY1 By Jon Weinstein Co-location Battle Brews at Inwood School By Jon Weinstein Wednesday, March 5, 2014 at 08:24 PM EST Angry parents and education advocates say they will go to court to keep a third school from sharing an Upper Manhattan building. Parents of I.S. 52 students in Inwood say they are disappointed the mayor’s office approved the co-location of the Career and Technical high school in its building. They say the century old b