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Search results for "NY credentials" ...

  • Dead Giveaway

    WGN-TV (Chicago) investigates the Cook County Public Administrator, who settles the estates of people dying without a will or close relatives; the office's chief appraiser uses bogus credentials, its chief attorney makes nearly half a million dollars a year for little work, and secret buyers are snatching up real estate at bargain prices.

    Tags: TAPE; Public Administrator; estates; appraisers; NY; Chicago

    By Mary Field;Steve Sanders

    WGN-TV (Chicago)

    1990

  • No title (id: 6360)

    New York Newsday reporter who also had a teaching credential took a year off to teach eighth-grade math in Brooklyn's Walt Whitman intermediate school during the 1988 - 89 school year; she found the math curriculum to be irrevelant and too difficult; no teaching experience was necessary, and promotional standards for movement from grade to grade was not consistent, 1989.

    Tags: Sachar NY

    By None

    Newsday (New York)

    1989

  • No title (id: 5389)

    New York Daily News examines career and written work of sociologist, author and Forbes columnist Srully Blotnick, finding some of his work fraudulently presented and his claims about his background misleading or false, July 19 - 23, 1987.

    Tags: NY credentials

    By None

    New York Daily News

    1987