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Some of the biggest spending cuts in the new budget - nearly $10 billion - will hit education and social services. Spending on kindergarten through 12th grade will be reduced by $8.4 billion over the next two years. This means teacher layoffs, fewer school days and more crowded classrooms. Higher education funding will also be cut by $888 million at state schools, where students will be expected to shoulder 10% higher fees. And, according to the new budget, $1.5 billion will be saved by eliminating senior citizens' annual cost of living increases and other health services (again, depending on where the federal...
Adolfo Carrion knows a thing or two about city life. In addition to serving two terms as New York City's Bronx Borough President, he has a degree in urban planning and job experience as a minister and public school teacher in the Bronx, which is why Barack Obama has tapped him to serve in a newly created executive branch position - White House Director of Urban Affairs. (See Who's Who in the Obama White House...
...Born in Manhattan; his family moved to the northern borough when he was an elementary school student. His father was a minister and Carrion followed in his footsteps, working briefly as an associate pastor. He also worked as a public school teacher before going to graduate school...
...Medical School, he continues to teach a popular course at the College, Sociology 190: “Life and Death in the USA: Medicine and Disease in Social Context.” Christakis’ wife, Erika, who is currently traveling in India, is an anthropologist and elementary school teacher who has spent her professional career advocating for children and families. A graduate of the College, she holds a master’s degree in early childhood education from Lesley University and one in public health from Johns Hopkins. Christakis said he and his family were so warmly welcomed...
...while his lawyers argued for hours over the inclusion of witnesses and other details in the trial that is expected to last about three months. Duch, who is now 66, oversaw Tuol Sleng at the height of the Khmer Rouge regime's brutality in the 1970s, a waifish mathematics teacher turned zealous revolutionary cadre who ran the prison with maniacal attention to the details of the life and death of his prisoners. (Read "A Brief History of the Khmer Rouge...