Parents Enticed With Gifts
February 19, 2008
New York Sun, May 1, 2007
Bovis Violation at Trump Mirrors Deutsche Bank
February 7, 2008
Fire Safety violations at Trump SoHo accident similar to those found after Deutsche Bank building fire that killed two firefighters
New York Sun
Jan. 17, 2008
The Deutsche Bank Fire
September 3, 2007
The following are highlights from a series over the course of two weeks about a fatal fire at the former Deutsche Bank building at ground zero:
Two firefighters were killed in a fire in the asbestos-contaminated structure at 130 Liberty Street in Lower Manhattan. Another two were injured in a construction accident there a few days later. These articles include breaking news events as the story unfolded and in-depth profiles of the private contractors involved in the demolition of the scarred building.
Giuliani Ex-Aide Works for Firm on Demolition, August 29, 2007
Giuliani Ex-Aide works for URS
Cigarette Blamed for Fatal Blaze Near Ground Zero, August 28, 2007
Cigarette Blamed For Fatal Blaze
One Firm Linked to Bridge Collapse, Ground Zero Fire, August 27, 2007
URS linked to MN Bridge
Bovis Lend Lease Has Defenders After Tough Week, August 24, 2007
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A Pipe Was Detached Before Deutsche Bank Fire, August 21, 2007
Standpipe Found Detached
Schools Seeing Fast Rise in Bureaucrats
April 7, 2007
March 20, 2007
Schools Seeing Fast Rise in Bureaucrats
BY SARAH GARLAND
Pg. 1
Fast Rise in School Bureaucrats
Even as Chancellor Joel Klein is promising to trim excess school bureaucrats, the number of employees working in the central education bureaucracy has reached an eight-year high, and the budget to pay them is projected to rise 12% next year.
The British Have Arrived: They’re Reviewing City Schools
April 7, 2007
The New York Sun
February 13, 2007 Tuesday
The British Have Arrived: They’re Reviewing City Schools
BYLINE: SARAH GARLAND
SECTION: NEW YORK; Pg. 3
The adults were nervous, the children were rambunctious, and the two middle-age British women who arrived to help them were armed with clipboards, a jolly sense of humor, and firm advice that few would dare question.
The scene could have been from “Nanny 911.” In fact, it was a public middle school in Greenwich Village, and the visitors were reviewers from the British company Cambridge Education, which has a contract with the Department of Education valued at about $6.4 million a year to evaluate how city schools evaluate themselves.
Parents Finding School District Offices Nearly Empty
April 7, 2007
The New York Sun
October 27, 2006 Friday
Parents Finding School District Offices Nearly Empty
BYLINE: SARAH GARLAND -, Staff Reporter of the Sun
SECTION: NEW YORK; Pg. 1
Under a legal settlement reached last year, the city’s education department is spending more than $5 million a year to staff district offices, but in many cases parents looking for help at those offices would be wasting their time.
Visits by a reporter in the past two weeks to the 19 district offices situated apart from the regional offices disclosed that it was rare to find a community superintendent.
