
By MEREDITH KOLODNER
The city's lauded after-school program has managed to enroll more children at a lower cost in part by paying low wages and offering few benefits to the program's workers. A report released last week praised many aspects of Mayor Bloomberg's three-year, $200-million investment in the Out of School ...
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By REUVEN BLAU
The Bloomberg administration Feb. 2 sued the Public Employment Relations Board, seeking to force the state agency to designate the chairperson of the arbitration panel handling the Patrolmen's Benevolent Association contract. More...
Union, Parents Question Rationale

By MEREDITH KOLODNER
Niquan Riley does not understand why, with millions of dollars pouring into the city's education and child-care coffers, the city is shutting her son's day-care center. Riley's 5-year-old son, Nakai Walker, will have to find a new place to go by Feb. 23 when the Irving Place Day Care Center, locat... More...

By GINGER ADAMS OTIS
The Fire Department last week officially pulled the plug on porn, issuing an order Jan. 30 that clarified and strengthened an existing ban on "inappropriate materials" in fire houses. More...