Your Thursday Public Services News Roundup

EDUCATION

NY Times: Teachers Set Deal With City on Discipline Process

NY Times: Small Vendors Left Out of Schools’ Book Purchasing

NY Post: Harlem showdown: Parents fume as pol takes on charters

NY Times: School Districts Warn of Deeper Teacher Cuts

NY Times: Regents Plan New Route to Master’s in Teaching

NY Daily News: Nepotism, conflict of interest find a home at charter schools

NY Post: Academies’ troubling ‘wait’ gain

Brooklyn Eagle: Parents, Workers Protest Day Care Center Closings

PUBLIC SAFETY

NY Daily News: Bloomberg’s gun control group airs ad with Columbine footage urging background checks for gun sales

NY Times: Leading Poisoning Proves a Stubborn Nemesis

Brooklyn Eagle: Report from 76^th Precinct

Brooklyn Paper: Area Kids is robbed

TRANSPORTATION

Gotham Gazette: Spending Freeze Deals Another Blow to Ailing Roads and Bridges

NY Post: Rail chief quits over gov’s "lies"

Tribeca Trib: Brooklyn Bridge Rehab Will Soon Begin

Fox 5 News: NYC Prepares to Cope with Bus Service Changes

Gotham Gazette: How ‘Transit-Oriented Development’ Will Put More New Yorkers in Cars

NY Post: Feds probe rail-project $$ bungle

Brooklyn Eagle: Goodbye B75, B77; Hello Longer B57, B61

UTILITIES

NY 1: State Lawmakers Slam Proposed Water Rate Hike