With newscaster Felipe Luciano running for City Council in East Harlem this year, leaders in El Barrio thought they had a chance to win the district. Rifts within the community have brought other candidates into the race, however, and could pave the way for Phil Reed of West Harlem to win another term.
The state Department of Education might want to re-read the Americans with Disabilities Act, suggests an advocacy group which last week filed a complaint in federal court that charged the agency with forcing students with special needs to wait up to two years to take their GED test.
A third of the community health clinics recently saved by the City Council are in no condition to be operating.
Two years after a report commissioned by Mayor Giuliani slammed City University of New York for its low graduation rates, innovative partnerships between the city public schools and CUNY have begun to turn the system around, says a new study by Center for an Urban Future.
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