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Criminals are using targeted automation to go after certain kinds of people — say, teachers who work in a certain city.

Mark Bello (above) opened Pizza a Casa on New York City's Lower East Side, he says, after spending nearly five years as a «nomadic pizza - teacher - for - hire,» sharing his pizza skills at various locations around the Big Apple.

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Philadelphia, Pennsylvania (CNN)- Three Philadelphia priests and a parochial school teacher were charged Thursday with raping and assaulting boys in their care, while a former official with the Philadelphia Archdiocese was accused of allowing the abusive priests to have access to children, the city's district attorney's office said.

The teachers union says school officials never should have opened the programs because the Chicago Housing Authority and the city Department of Human Services have extended their summer feeding programs at 220 sites throughout the city.

An anonymous Senate Republican, who does not represent New York City, said his conference is growing aggravated by Mayor Bloomberg's «do - or - die» approach to lobbying on key issues - including the release of teacher performance evaluation data — an issue he lost on to the teachers» unions.

King recently expressed extreme frustration with the teachers union and school administrators in several large cities downstate and upstate, over what he said was a failure to come up with a teacher evaluation plan by a December 31 deadline, to meet requirements for the federal Race to the Top grant awards.

New York City School Chancellor Cathie Black says the budget cuts will lead to thousands of teacher lay offs.

Kann said he would like for the city to create a teacher's commission that would make decisions on city education.

Local teachers union officials said they planning a rally for this Thursday near City Hall.

In late December, the state's education commissioner froze some of the state's $ 700 million dollars in Race to the Top grants, saying some schools, including in New York City and several upstate cities, had not complied with the teacher evaluation requirements.

City Council Speaker Christine Quinn, who is seen as a close ally of the mayor, walked a more cautious line, but said that Bloomberg's hostile relationship with the teachers union had become counter-productive.

Some Buffalo Public school parents say they believe the Buffalo Teachers Federation (BTF) is attempting to «sabotage progress» in the city school district.

City Honors parents in Buffalo say planned teacher cuts at their school would cause a major disruption for students.

Assembly Speaker Sheldon Silver, D - Manhattan, whose large Democratic conference includes legislators friendly to the state teacher's union and New York City residents, has said he would be in favor of a cap, but with some exemptions.

He said that it wasn't a coincidence that New York State is one of only 14 states whose per - student spending is back up at pre-2008 levels and New York City is the only large city that has not had teacher layoCity is the only large city that has not had teacher layocity that has not had teacher layoffs.

City Hall says Cuomo's plan would simply expedite an already - underway process by the state Education Department to create guidelines for evaluating teachers but leave intact the legal language mandating layoffs be implemented based on seniority.

Silver says the Assembly's budget plan, due out March 11, will restore $ 260 million dollars Cuomo cut to New York City schools, after they failed to meet the governor's deadline to agree on a teacher evaluation plan.

She said that standardized testing should play a «minimal» role in evaluating teachers and that she would not raise the cap on the number of charter schools that can be opened in the city.

The vote ends a contentious budget season in which Mayor Michael Bloomberg had said that severe cutbacks in city and state funding along with a struggling economy made it necessary for the nation's largest city to dial back core services and lay off more than 4,000 teachers.

With the budget surplus growing — the city's personal income tax receipts were up 69 percent from last year, according to a new report, he said — it was clear that politics, not the budget, was behind the mayor's drive to lay off 4,278 teachers.

In discussing the budget, Mulgrew said to applause that for the first time in four years the city will be hiring teachers to replace those who leave.

Comptroller John Liu said the city shouldn't be spending money to recruit teachers as it's preparing to lay off thousands.

«I would think that's a major challenge given the position of the mayor, city and teachers union that has to be addressed,» Marcellino said.

«I applaud those students for speaking up, I applaud the students for taking action and I think the calls of the students and parents have captured the attention of the administration of the Buffalo Public Schools and the teacher's union and I'm hoping that those two entities can come together in the best interest of the education of the children at City Honors,» he said.

Syracuse City Schools Superintendent Sharon Contreras said in the article that each year, teachers have been laid off while classrooms continue to grow.

Please use your voice to fix this and stop the removal of teachers at City Honors on Tuesday, February 27th,» one parent said.

After his State of the City address, Mayor Brown commented on the students» and parents» efforts and says he also hopes both the school district and teachers federation come up with a solution that works for everyone.

«There are plenty of federal prosecutors outside our jurisdiction,» said Eugene O'Donnell, a former prosecutor who teachers criminal law at the City University of New York.

One of the speakers was Julie Penchszadeh Robert, a junior at City Honors, who said her english teacher and music teachers are among those who would lose their job.

United Federation of Teachers President Michael Mulgrew said he was hopeful that layoffs can be avoided through negotiations with the city.

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Michael Mulgrew, the president of the United Federation of Teachers, the city teachers» union, had urged the members of the charter schools committee on Wednesday morning to reject the regulations, which he said would lower standards for charter schoolteachers, and promised to sue if the new regulations were aTeachers, the city teachers» union, had urged the members of the charter schools committee on Wednesday morning to reject the regulations, which he said would lower standards for charter schoolteachers, and promised to sue if the new regulations were ateachers» union, had urged the members of the charter schools committee on Wednesday morning to reject the regulations, which he said would lower standards for charter schoolteachers, and promised to sue if the new regulations were approved.

«Without a detailed and thoughtful exchange, it is difficult to craft an extension that is in the best interests of New York City's students and teachers,» said Senate Education Committee Chairman Carl Marcellino (R - Nassau County).

U.S. Attorney Preet Bharara said Thursday the city's DOE stood by and did nothing while Pan American International High School Principal Minerva Zanca compared one of the school's black teachers to «a gorilla in a sweater» with «f — ing nappy hair» and demeaned another for having «big lips.»

ELMHURST — Federal prosecutors sued the city Department of Education Thursday on civil rights violations after they say it failed to stop a Queens principal from systematically harassing and demeaning the school's black teachers.

But Bloomberg said the city did make «some progress» in the budget, especially when it comes to an agreement between the governor and legislative leaders that will essentially prevent any teacher evaluation plans from sunsetting — a big concern for the mayor.

As usual, lawmakers emerged from the meeting in Cuomo's office to say little, though they revealed issues ranging from rent control and mayoral control for New York City as well as changes to the state's teacher evaluation criteria are under discussion.

«In my days in the New York City Council, I worked with students, teachers and families under a system governed by the Board of Education,» Golden said in a statement.

At the Red Room press conference where Gov. Andrew Cuomo and Democratic legislative leaders — minus Skelos — had announced the med - mar deal, Klein said a vote would be held Thursday evening on the bill, along with bills that would create a 25 mph in New York City and adjust the state's teacher evaluation law.

De Blasio's school discipline overhaul is drawing fire from the teachers union and parents who say the city hasn't done enough to back up the new policies that prompted a huge drop in student suspensions.

Teachers and students from a local Catholic school said they planned to picket outside Rosenthal's New York City office Tuesday afternoon.

City United Federation of Teachers President Michael Mulgrew said: «We have been very vocal on what our positions are on a whole range of problems created by the rollout of the Common Core.»

«The city has recovered economically, and we believe that the city can afford to restore Teacher's Choice to prerecession levels,» he said.

Schools Chancellor Joel Klein said in a memo to principals that because of seniority rules, the city would be forced to lay off most of the elementary school teachers hired since 2007.

Sen. Liz Krueger said she thinks that the teachers union, Black and Bloomberg all agree that the city is bearing an unfair share of education cuts — whether the union and the administraiton are getting along or not.

«Gov. Cuomo was crystal clear — if the New York City Department of Education and United Federation of Teachers do not reach an agreement on the parameters of how to best evaluate teachers, the city could be forced to sacrifice crucial state aid,» said Micah Lasher, Executive Director of StudentsFirsCity Department of Education and United Federation of Teachers do not reach an agreement on the parameters of how to best evaluate teachers, the city could be forced to sacrifice crucial state aid,» said Micah Lasher, Executive Director of StudentsTeachers do not reach an agreement on the parameters of how to best evaluate teachers, the city could be forced to sacrifice crucial state aid,» said Micah Lasher, Executive Director of Studentsteachers, the city could be forced to sacrifice crucial state aid,» said Micah Lasher, Executive Director of StudentsFirscity could be forced to sacrifice crucial state aid,» said Micah Lasher, Executive Director of StudentsFirstNY.

In addition the poll found that more than three quarters of voters (77 %) who were aware of New York City's current teacher evaluation system said it needed improvement.

UFT President Mulgrew says he hopes the agreement can break the logjam and lead to an ultimate settlement on evaluations for New York City teachers.