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Anastasia Coleman, the special commissioner of investigations for the district, wrote the report on Jan. 26, addressing it to the chancellor of New York City Public Schools. It was released ...
A “homeless” UCLA lecturer who railed against the university, saying his $70,000 paycheck was too low to live in Los Angeles, claims he was placed on leave because of his remarks toward the ...
The 1975 Supreme Court decision O'Connor v. Donaldson limited involuntary psychiatric hospitalization to those who posed a danger to themselves or others. Many states passed legislation following the ruling, including New York, which passed its Mental Hygiene Law in 1978, allowing involuntary hospitalization of people with mental illness if they were considered a danger to themselves or others.
Allynwood Academy, formerly the Family Foundation School, was a private, co-educational, college preparatory, therapeutic boarding school located in Hancock, New York. [1] The school was in operation from 1984 through 2014, when it closed due to declining enrollment amid a raft of physical, emotional, and sexual abuse allegations made by alumni ...
A reassignment center (also known as a rubber room) is a type of holding facility administered by the New York City Department of Education for teachers accused of misconduct while awaiting resolution of their misconduct cases. [1] [2] As of 2007, the city had thirteen reassignment centers. [3]
New York’s homeless crisis is growing More than 200,600 migrants have arrived in New York since the spring of 2022, and more than 65,600 people remain in the city’s care, according to city data .
Many of the state of New York's largest cities have introduced laws in the last decade prohibiting 'aggressive begging' in some form. The 1993 Loper case was a challenge to the state-wide law in the New York Penal Code §240.35(1) which made it an offence to loiter in a public place for the purpose of begging. New York City Police Department ...
New York Gov. Kathy Hochul called for the immediate dismissal of 14 prison employees after the death of Robert Brooks earlier this month.