Dozens of public school students can proceed with their constitutional challenges to New York’s teacher-tenure system, a state appeals court ruled Wednesday. The consolidated complaints, filed by students and parents, allege that the tenure system allows ineffective teachers who rank at the bottom 5 percent among all public school teachers to remain employed, leading to […]
Loretta Lynch’s Statement Prior to Comey’s Interview…
Challenge to Teacher-Tenure System in NY Advances…
Congressman Actually Suggests Second Amendment As means of Opposing Trump…
Rep. Tom Suozzi made the remark to constituents at a town hall last week, saying that folks opposed to Trump might resort to the “Second Amendment.” “It’s really a matter of putting public pressure on the president,” Suozzi said in a newly released video of the March 12 talk in Huntington. “This is where the […]
Time’s Up Calls for Investigation Into New York D.A.’s Handling of Harvey Weinstein Allegations…
The Time’s Up organization is calling for an investigation into New York District Attorney Cyrus Vance Jr. for his office’s decision not to prosecute Harvey Weinstein in 2015 after Amber Battilana alleged that she had been groped and harassed by the indie mogul. The group, which was launched this year to combat workplace abuse and […]
New York: More Than 100 Public Defenders Walk Out in Protest of Clients Detainment by ICE…
More than 100 public defenders — attorneys for people who can’t afford lawyers — walked out Thursday in protest of their clients getting detained by federal immigration officers. The civil disobedience happened at the courthouse in the Bronx, with the attorneys saying Immigration and Customs Enforcement has adopted new standard operating procedures under President Donald […]
Fire Extinguished at Clinton’s Chappaqua Home…
Authorities put out a fire at the New York property of former President Bill Clinton and former Secretary of State Hillary Clinton on Wednesday, a Clinton spokesman confirmed. The New Castle Police and the Chappaqua Fire Department firefighters responded to the Clinton property in Chappaqua, in northern Westchester County, after receiving a call about a […]
Trump Tells New York, New Jersey to Pay for Their Own Damn Rail Project…
It’s rare for a president to pull funding from a sweetheart transportation project. But on the final Friday of 2017, the Trump administration announced that it was backing away from an Obama-era plan to lavish billions in federal aid on the Hudson Tunnel project. Billed as “the nation’s most urgent major infrastructure project” by its […]