Search results
Results From The WOW.Com Content Network
Conservative activists backed by leading Republicans are investing in school board elections. Liberal parents are fighting back, but they lack Democratic Party support.
The city has a strong imbalance of payments with the federal and state governments. As of 2022, New York City receives $0.95 cents in services for every $1.40 it sends to Washington in taxes (or annually sends $13.1 billion more to Washington than it receives back), marking it as one of the states that subsidize federal spending in other ...
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
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 ...
[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]
Others say the four-day school week, even if it does have marginal benefits in some circumstances, is ultimately a small adjustment that does nothing to address the funding shortfalls and cultural ...
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.
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.