In 2010, when the party was
under federal investigation and risked
falling off the ballot in the following election, it agreed to endorse Cuomo after he made the party's leaders sign on to a pro-business platform that included fighting organized labor.
Edison Schools Inc., already pummeled by
falling stock prices and opposition to its work, is being booted out of school districts in Texas and Georgia, and has come
under investigation by state and
federal authorities who want to know how it secured two contracts in Pennsylvania.