John lobbying firm and a vice chair of the
State Democratic Party, Peter Ajemian, who is
State Senator Brad Hoylman's
chief of staff, Brian Ellner, who was a Bloomberg appointee at the Department of
Education and later played a leading role in the marriage equality fight in Albany, Matthew McMorrow, who is an aide to Mayor Bill de Blasio on gay issues, and Dirk McCall, who works for Bronx Borough President Ruben Diaz, Jr..
«It is crucial for a
democratic society to provide all of its schoolchildren with fair access to an unsegregated
education,» Ellen A. Peters, then
chief justice of the
state's High Court, wrote in the majority opinion in July 1996.