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Jose Rivera has to fill the county clerk’s spot after Christine Quinn (below) promoted Hector Diaz.

While Bronx Political Seats Need Filling .. Speculation Makes Them Hotseats

The guessing game is now on over whom Bronx Dem boss Jose Rivera will pick to fill the county clerk’s seat now that Council speaker Chris Quinn has picked the current clerk, Hector Diaz, to be the 174G-a-year city clerk.

Jose was away in New Hampshire campaigning for Hillary, but putting it together from a few sources, close and otherwise, he faces two issues replacing Diaz:

• 1) a party that’s become increasingly disgruntled over his ethnic cronyism and nepotism, and
• 2) how it affects son and Council majority leader Joel in his Bronx BP bid. “Everything revolves around Joel,” sayeth one source.

While the non-Latino faction of the party has been griping about exclusion, a lot of Bronx Dems of all shades are saying Poppa Rivera’s all-in-the-family attitude has become an open embarrassment - Joel, daughter Naomi in the assembly, both their spouses on city payrolls, and son Rodney in Senate Democratic leader Malcolm Smith’s press office. Stay tuned.

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CRUNCH TIME:Today’s state test counts toward Chancellor Klein’s report card on all schools, including Bronx Prep.

Bronx Charter School Takes Day Off Before Student’s Biggest Test

January 8, 2008 — As if the stakes weren’t high already.

Fifth-graders at the Bronx Preparatory Charter School preparing for today’s state English exams had to temporarily add “location” to their concerns about the annual tests.

Their parents were told over the weekend that Bronx Prep’s principal and board of directors decided to close the school yesterday - the day before an exam that determines promotion for third-, fifth- and seventh-graders.

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Yusef, left, and Muntu Waliyaya, Davion Smith and Sonia Gayle at their apartment in the Bronx.

Bronx Family Grateful For Educational & Home Furnishing Support

Sonia Gayle and her husband, Kubblla Waliyaya, want their teenage sons and their granddaughter to have one thing on their minds: getting an education.

“Knowledge is power,” Ms. Gayle, 56, said at the family’s home in the Bronx.

Everywhere in the living room are items to nurture young minds.

Self-help and educational books sit in a towering stack on the dining table next to the place mats with a map of the United States, meant to teach the children about geography.

On a wall, along with family photos, is a colorful handmade poster with the alphabet in upper and lower case, for her to practice with her granddaughter, Davion Smith, 6.

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