Mobile UPI  |   About UPI  |   UPI en Español  |   UPI Arabic  |   UPIU  |   My Account
Search:
Go

Money may not save boys choir eviction

|
|
 
  
Published: Jan. 17, 2006 at 11:59 AM

NEW YORK, Jan. 17 (UPI) -- New York Public Schools Chancellor Joel Klein says the Harlem Boys Choir will be evicted from a public school-owned building no matter what.

Klein made made the comment Monday on the heels of an announcement by former N.Y. Mayor David Dinkins that $1 million had been raised to help the indebted choir meet a $5 million shortfall, the New York Post reported Tuesday.

"We're not prepared to back off ... this has been going on a long time," Klein said.

The choir was ordered to be out of the school by Jan. 31.

The key dispute appears to center around the choir's violation of a 2004 agreement it made with New York school officials to remove the director and Boys Choir founder Walter Turnbull.

Turnbull was accused of mishandling complaints that a choir staffer molested a 13-year-old boy.

After the eviction was announced, Dinkins took over the choir's direction has been mounting an aggressive fundraising campaign.

Topics: David Dinkins, Joel Klein
© 2006 United Press International, Inc. All Rights Reserved. Any reproduction, republication, redistribution and/or modification of any UPI content is expressly prohibited without UPI's prior written consent.

Order reprints
  
Join the conversation
Most Popular Collections
Protesters, police clash at NATO summit Notable deaths of 2012 2012 Billboard Music Awards
The 137th Preakness Stakes Annual Solar eclipse occurs in U.S. Chen Guangcheng arrives in the U.S.
Additional Entertainment News Stories
1 of 29
Members of the Army's Old Guard place flags at Arlington National Ceremtery
View Caption
U.S. flags are seen in the rucksack of a soldier with the Army's 3d U.S. Infantry Regiment, The Old Guard, as he places flags at gravesites in Arlington National Cemetery as part of the Flags-In Memorial Day ceremony on May 24, 2012 in Arlington, Virginia. American flags were placed at each of the more than 220,000 grave markers in honor of those who served and Memorial Day. UPI/Kevin Dietshc
fark
Happy 75th birthday to the Golden Gate Bridge, the most beautiful bridge in the world
Photoshop this frog jumping coach
China criticizes the U.S. on its "dismal" human rights record, citing police brutality, arresting...
Hey, why don't we have a gardening thread? BRING ON THE ORGANIC TROLLS
What happens when a precious little snowflake get his JD and goes to work on Wall Street? He sues...
Alcohol was definitely involved