New York State has new sexual harassment policies on the books. Yay for us. But these policies are not uniformly enforced, according to sources. The saying goes: “a law is only as good as its’ […]
NYC Mayor Bill DeBlasio LINK Bill de Blasio and Phil Walzak From NYC Public Voice In 2011, then-New York City Mayor Michael Bloomberg got himself in hot water when he declared “I have my own […]
DF version available for download here For a searchable database of all 2013-2015 news coverage of police violence involving persons with disabilities, click here. EXECUTIVE SUMMARY Disability is the missing word in media coverage of police violence. […]
Across the U.S., perhaps nowhere is student-on-student sexual assault as dismissed or as camouflaged as in boys’ sports, an Associated Press investigation found. Mischaracterized as hazing and bullying, the violence is so normalized on some […]
The 3020-a Arbitration charging process used in New York City needs to be fixed, and in particular the omission of a vote in Executive Session by the New York City Panel For Educational Policy which is mandated by […]
National Public Voice EDWEEK By Mark Walsh March 19, 2018 The question is, “how much freedom of speech protection may a teacher expect?” The U.S. Supreme Court on Monday declined to take up the appeal of […]
National Public Voice By Tara Bannow, Modern Healthcare, April 5, 2018NYC comptroller seeks more control at UHS, other companies New York City’s comptroller isn’t giving up on his uphill battle to get proxy access to for-profit hospital chain […]
Due to the disarray of the teacher discipline hearings, as well as the lack of accountability inside the New York City Department of Education where good teachers are fined/suspended without pay/terminated often for no reason, […]
There is a power play going on in the Department of Investigation (DOI). Re-posted from NYC Public Voice March 31, 2018 Mark Peters, NYC’s Commissioner For the Department of Investigation, Fires Anastasia Coleman, Special Commissioner of Investigation […]
For fourteen years I have been researching the 3020-a Arbitration charging process used in New York City, and in particular the omission of a vote in Executive Session by the New York City Panel For […]
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