It should give people pause when two white suburban legislators propose having a white county executive appoint a «commissioner» to be able to pluck schools away from the democratically elected school board of an overwhelmingly nonwhite district. (stopmpstakeover.com)
Insiders say the proposal is on life support, in part because suburban legislators have figured out the governor might just impose the same plan on their districts and because First Deputy Mayor Dean Fuleihan has put up stubborn opposition to it. (crainsnewyork.com)
Outer borough and suburban legislators vociferously objected to the idea that they would have to pay while wealthy Manhattanites who already lived in the area would not. (shakingnews.com)