By Sergio Hernandez, Special to ProPublica. In November 2010, I was earning $300 a week for The Village Voice, blogging about unemployed actors w...

The Bloomberg administration is set to appeal an order from the State Supreme Court to release email correspondences between the Mayor and former Scho...

In a democracy, it is the people who need to have the power, not just the rich and powerful. Let us hope that Americans learn that their rights are very tenuous and need to be protected, rather than simply taken for granted.

Cathie Black wonders if she would have been so harshly received if she were a man. "If I were a guy, would I have had the pounding that I did?" Black...

NEW YORK -- The city's embattled schools chancellor resigned Thursday after three contentious months on the job, the latest in a series of third-term ...

NEW YORK -- From the cheering and excitement swirling around Tweed Courthouse this afternoon, one thing was clear -- Dennis Walcott has something Cath...

Cathie Black is out. Thank the Lord. Rather than beating up on the newly departed schools chancellor, let's be grateful that this train wreck ended before it did more damage.

Cathie Black is out as New York City Public Schools chancellor. Deputy Mayor Dennis Walcott will take over. In a press conference on Thursday, Bloo...

The more people get to know Schools Chancellor Cathie Black, the more they disapprove of her, according to a new NY1-Marist poll. Black's approval ra...

Cathie Black has experienced what may be her first successful public outing as chancellor. Yesterday the chancellor went to Albany to convince lawma...

It's the end of another beautiful -- or at least mutually self-interested -- political friendship. National teachers union head Randi Weingarten has lost the love when it comes to Mayor Bloomberg.

Mayor Michael R. Bloomberg reached a deal Friday to save the tottering candidacy of Cathleen P. Black to be the next chancellor of New York City schoo...

Cathie Black was greeted by a chorus of boos at Wednesday night's Panel for Educational Policy meeting in Fort Greene. The loudest heckling was hear...

NEW YORK — New York City Mayor Michael Bloomberg says his schools chancellor was making a joke when she said birth control would solve the probl...

UPDATE: Cathie Black says she was Mayor Bloomberg's first pick for schools chancellor. "What he said to me is, 'You're the first person I've offered ...

Cathie Black beat back criticism of her appointment, scoffed at teacher tenure and urged people to get to know her in her first interview since becomi...

Newly appointed Schools Chancellor Cathie Black wasted no time before attacking the tenure system, much maligned by her boss, Mayor Bloomberg. Blac...

Education experts are protesting the appointment of Cathie Black to NYC schools chancellor earlier this week. Green Party members lined up at Hears...