CUNY Plan to Phase Out Remediation Faces New Lawsuit

A coalition of civil-rights groups last week sued the trustees of the City University of New York over their efforts to eliminate most remedial-education classes at the system's 11 four-year colleges.

The complaint, filed in state court, says that the Board of Trustees violated state law by refusing to submit a new system-wide policy on remediation to the New York Board of Regents for approval. Officials at

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