The Chicago Teachers Union is suing the city’s board of education in order to stop more than a thousand teachers from being laid off. In June, the board gave Chicago Public Schools CEO Ron Huberman the power to lay off teachers and increase class sizes to close a multi-million dollar budget hole. The lawsuit claims […]

The rumors started circulating soon after Howard Dodson announced this spring that he would step down as director of the Schomburg Center for Research in Black Culture. He had been forced out, some said. The 10 million holdings of the center, a research unit of the New York Public Library, would be moved to the […]

WASHINGTON (AP) — Incumbents beware. Another lawmaker just bit the dust. Michigan Rep. Carolyn Cheeks Kilpatrick lost her bid for an eighth term on Tuesday, her son’s legal woes dragging her down in a year when fickle voters seem eager to fire longtime lawmakers.

Almost seven months have passed since the devastating earthquake struck Haiti on January 12, 2010.  The destruction was massive; the financial costs are estimated at US$8-11 billion. In my work I receive daily reports from people who are either in Haiti working on the recovery effort or who have just returned from consultations, assessments, and […]

MANCHESTER, Conn. — Omar Thornton sat calmly in a meeting with union representative and his supervisors as they showed a video of him stealing beer from the distributor where he worked.

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