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For hundreds of Buffalo students attending the city's International School, Tuesday was the first day to get a hands-on feel for their school.

"The top five languages spoken here are Burmese, Karen, Arabic, Somali and Mai-Mai," said Principal Nadia Nashir.

Nashir is the children of Yemeni parents who came here 40 years ago unable to read or write English or Arabic, and unable to help their daughter with her homework. But the principal of a school where 37 languages are spoken says her parents made her show up every day, do her homework, and organize her life.

Buffalo schools and the Buffalo Teachers Federation  are possibly ready to work out differences about major teacher transfers out of three troubled schools.

Both sides were in court Thursday; they're are due in court Friday after  State Supreme Court Justice Gerald Whalen ordered Schools Superintendent Pamela Brown to be there.

BTF President Phil Rumore was in the court session.

Dr. Pamela Brown is now officially the new superintendent of the Buffalo Public Schools.   Brown was sworn in by Justice Rose Sconiers at City Hall Thursday afternoon. 

Brown's three-year contract was unanimously approved Wednesday night by the school board after a court battle. An attempt by Buffalo businessman Carl Paladino to block Brown's hiring was tossed out by State Supreme Court Justice Donna Siwek late Wednesday afternoon.

Former gubernatorial candidate Carl Paladino wants to stall the appointment of Pamela Brown as Buffalo schools superintendent.

Paladino is due in State Supreme Court tomorrow in his fight to open up the closed-door executive sessions used to select the new superintendent.

The board is still holding closed meetings to talk about details of the proposed pact, with lawyers from both sides bargaining the contract under which Brown would work, from pay to evaluation provisions.

The school board is slated to approve Brown's contract at a late-afternoon meeting tomorrow.

Late Friday afternoon, members of Buffalo's Board of Education responded to accusations from Buffalo developer Carl Paladino asserting the board violated the state's open meetings law by convening in closed-door executive sessions when it chose Dr. Pamela Brown to be the district's new superintendent.

Paladino, a frequent critic of the board, has filed papers in State Supreme Court seeking to block Brown's hiring, as well as her transitional contract that pays her a consulting fee of $800 a day. 

Buffalo businessman Carl Paladino claims the city school board violated the state's open meetings law when it hired new schools superintendent Dr. Pamela Brown. 

Paladino has filed papers asking the State Supreme Court to block Brown's hiring and toss out her contract which also provides her with an $800  a day consultant fee prior to final contract approval. 

The board voted 7-2 for Brown at its June 13 meeting. The vote was taken after a lengthy executive session with no public discussion.

A court hearing on the matter is set for next Wednesday.

The third and final candidate for the Buffalo Schools Superintendents' job met the press at City Hall Monday afternoon.  Dr. Pamela Brown, like the other finalists, brings to the table a wealth of experience, especially, in urban education. 

Brown has been a top administrator in Philadelphia, Richmond, Va, and the Charlotte-Mecklinburg district in North Carolina.  She is Stanford and Harvard-educated and she received her Ph.D from Harvard. 

Interested observers get their chance to meet the third finalist on the candidate's list to become Buffalo's new school superintendent.

Doctor Pamela Brown will meet Monday afternoon with reporters before appearing at a 6 p.m. public reception at Waterfront School.

Brown works currently with an educational center in Massachusetts. Prior to that she served as an Associate Superintendent in Philadelphia's public schools.