Thursday, October 29, 2015

City foster care leader takes over amid problems, politics-inflected lawsuit

City foster care leader takes over amid problems, politics-inflected lawsuit

Julie Farber is taking charge of New York City's foster care system in unusually awkward circumstances.

Tasked with turning around a historically troubled system, she is now fighting a lawsuit filed against the city agency by her former employer, and joined by Public Advocate Letitia James — a lawsuit that seems to be caught up in the increasingly fraught political dynamic between Governor Andrew Cuomo and his erstwhile ally, Mayor Bill de Blasio.

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