FACES: Tracy Cooney, Former Deputy Counsel, NYC DOE

Tracy Cooney

Director, Labor and Employee Relations at New York University

Director, Labor and Employee Relations

New York University

August 2014 – Present (5 months)

Chief Deputy Counsel

NYC Department of Education

November 2011 – August 2014 (2 years 10 months)

Director, Special Education Unit, Office of the General Counsel

NYC Department of Education

September 2009 – October 2011 (2 years 2 months)

Deputy Director, Special Education Unit

NYC Department of Education

November 2004 – September 2009 (4 years 11 months)

Suspension Hearing Officer

NYC Department of Education

January 2004 – November 2004 (11 months)Bronx, New York

Presided over hearings and issued decisions sustaining or dismissing Superintendent's suspensions. Provided guidance on special education issues to school and suspension hearing office staff.

Staff Attorney

NYC Department of Education

May 2000 – January 2004 (3 years 9 months)New York, NY

Staff Attorney

City of New York, Administration for Children's Services

September 1998 – May 2000 (1 year 9 months)Brooklyn, New York

Prosecuted child abuse and neglect proceedings.