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Conservative activists backed by leading Republicans are investing in school board elections. Liberal parents are fighting back, but they lack Democratic Party support.
The school was so embarrassed by the sight of one music student with a trombone practicing in a storage closet during a Post visit last week that it forbade a news photographer from taking a ...
In the Central Bucks School District north of Philadelphia, Democrats flipped three seats, ousting the incumbent school board president, and retained two others, giving the party majority control.
The New York City government's budget is the largest municipal budget in the United States, [2] totaling about $112.4 billion in 2024. It employs 250,000 people, spends $23.5 billion to educate more than 1.1 million children, levies $27 billion in taxes, and receives $14 billion from federal and state governments.
A Liberal was made deputy mayor in Giuliani's administration and 23 Liberals received appointments. Two of Harding's sons also received positions. [65] The Liberal vote fell to 71,017, a small number over the 50,000 needed to retain ballot access, despite supporting Cuomo's successful campaign in the 1990 gubernatorial election.
[28] [29] [30] New York Law School, a private law school in lower Manhattan, is one of the oldest independent law schools in the United States. [citation needed] The New York Academy of Sciences is one of the oldest scientific societies in the United States, [31] comprising some 20,000 scientists of all disciplines from 150 countries. [32]
Some U.S. schools are shortening their schedules in hopes of solving staffing shortages, but experts worry about learning loss that can occur when classroom time is cut back.
The great school wars: A history of the New York City public schools (1975), a standard scholarly history online; Ravitch, Diane, and Joseph P. Viteritti, eds. City Schools: Lessons from New York (2000) Ravitch, Diane, ed. NYC schools under Bloomberg and Klein what parents, teachers and policymakers need to know (2009) essays by experts online