WASHINGTON, D.C. (NNPA) – More than 200 African American men, ranging from a taxi driver to university professors, sent a letter to President Obama on…
NEW YORK — President Barack Obama’s visit on Friday to a Brooklyn public school operated in partnership with IBM puts him, perhaps unwittingly, in the thick of a charged battle over education policy in the nation’s largest school system. The school, Pathways in Technology Early College High School, or P-Tech, was touted by Obama […]
In New Yorker story “After Bloomberg,” New York City Mayor Michael Bloomberg says that when it comes to his legacy, he’d like to be remembered as the mayor who brought the city “efficient, honest government that is responsive to the needs of the people, without worrying about politics, focusing instead on the things that will make a diff ...