Helen Zelon

Cost-conscious NYC Department of Education purchasing requirements mean that local publishers — including minority- and women-owned businesses who’ve worked with the DOE for a quarter-century or more — are prohibited from doing business with the DOE. Local laws, which govern city agencies, don’t pertain, because the DOE is neither fish nor fowl — neither a city nor a state agency, but its own entity, under the control of Mayor Bloomberg.

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