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• NY Daily News - Op/Ed Rebuttal by Assemblywoman Nolan & Councilman Gioia - Contaminated Factory Last Place to Put a New School...

  Published: October 4, 2007, 1:18 pm

  Tags: Dennis Walcott, Joel Klein, Catherine Nolan, Schools, School Construction, Mayor Bloomberg, Nyc Department Of Education, Eric Gioia

  Deputy Mayor Walcott's "Be Our Guest" piece last week is a disingenuous public relations ploy to protect mayoral power and avoid accountability at the expense of the health of

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• NY Daily News Op/Ed - Deputy Mayor Denis Wallcott - City Ensures Strict Standards for Every New School Project

  Published: October 4, 2007, 12:48 pm

  Tags: Dennis Walcott, Joel Klein, Schools, School Construction, Mayor Bloomberg, Nyc Department Of Education

  original... BY DENNIS WALCOTT DEPUTY MAYOR Tuesday, September 25th 2007, 4:00 AM <!-- hidden values for email -->

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• 2007 Queens "Making Strides Against Breast Cancer" with the St Johns University Liberty Partnership Program (LPP)...

  Published: October 21, 2007, 4:15 pm

  Tags: Usps, Dennis Walcott, Queens Health Network, Queens, Breast Cancer, Uft, Liberty Partnership Program, St Johns University, Local 338

  I had the privilege of participating with the St. John's Liberty Partnership Programs walk to find a cure for breast cancer...The LPP group raised over $800 this year...The total contingent from St. Johns University collected over $11,500 before the final totals had been tallied... It was a gorgeous Indian summer day for the Annual Making Strides

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• What Almontaser's Lawsuit Says About Bloomberg, Joel Klein, D.O.E.

  Published: November 20, 2007, 9:24 am

  Tags: Politics, Debbie Almontaser, Dennis Walcott, Michael Bloomberg

  appealed to Deputy Mayor Dennis Walcott, who said he'd try to find her another job somewhere else, and "added that the mayor wanted her resignation by 8 a.m. the next morning so he could announce it on his radio show the next morning. Which is a considerably different version of events than what the Department of Education first put

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• Serrano Calls For New Middle School in the Bronx

  Published: December 11, 2007, 1:40 pm

  Tags: Politics, Dennis Walcott, Jose Serrano

  CDATA[[State Senator Jose Serrano of the Bronx joined constituents calling for a new middle school in the High Bridge section of the Bronx this morning.]]

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• City Comptroller Honored At Annual Teachers' Union Gala - NY1: Education

  Published: May 12, 2008, 2:23 am

  Tags: Nys Board Of Regent, Teachers, Randi Weingarten, Dennis Walcott, Joel Klein, Parents, Schools, Comptroller William Thompson, Uft, Nyc Department Of Education

  Joel Klein and Deputy Mayor Dennis Walcott, sat within feet of the podium."I don't know why, but for whatever reason, the Bloomberg-Klein administration has shut the community out," said Weingarten.Walcott and Klein deflected Weingarten's criticism, calling it public posturing. They say behind the scenes they work very closely with the teachers

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• The Pencil Portfolio by Andrew J. Hawkins - City Hall News

  Published: May 20, 2008, 2:40 pm

  Tags: Robert Jackson, Dennis Walcott, Mayoral Control, Diane Ravitch, Betsy Gotbaum, Schools, School Construction, Mayor Bloomberg, Nyc Department Of Education

  less than 13 months, but Dennis Walcott, the deputy mayor of education, is barely sweating.Walcott, who also serves as one of Bloomberg's top education negotiators in Albany, is confident state legislators will reauthorize the five-year-old law. But with more than a year left to negotiate the terms, Walcott said he is concentrating instead on

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• Letter to the Editor - Wants Action On Schools - Queens Gazette

  Published: May 23, 2008, 3:40 pm

  Tags: Dennis Walcott, Budget Cuts, Nyc Council, Joel Klein, Paterson, Schools, Mayor Bloomberg, Dmq

  and his staff (Deputy Mayor [Dennis] Walcott and [Schools] Chancellor [Joel] Klein) feel it is in the best interests of our city to shortchange the educations of our children, especially in this era of job and market competition on a global scale. One budget cut I would propose is that the DOE reduce their over-bloated press/public relations

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• An Apparent Heir to Weingarten Emerges at N.Y. Teachers Union by Elizabeth Green -- The New York Sun

  Published: July 22, 2008, 12:29 am

  Tags: Randi Weingarten, Dennis Walcott, Joel Klein, Schools, Uft, Ny Sun, Nyc Department Of Education

  new contacts is Deputy Mayor Dennis Walcott, who yesterday praised him as a "forceful" advocate, saying the two have a "great relationship." Following in Ms. Weingarten's footsteps, Mr. Mulgrew seems already to have won the disdain of the union's internal opposition caucus, the Independent Community of Educators, or ICE. An ICE leader, Jeffrey

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