Not exact matches
Starting on the
Board of Education in Union
City where he lived at the time.
De Blasio's aides on Monday warned
of chaos in the school system if the mayoral control law is allowed to expire and the
city goes back to the old
Board of Education system
where the mayor appoints two members and the five borough presidents one each.
The Democrats» nominee, Mr. Caroleo, 64,
of North Babylon, is a retired New York
City police officer, a current member
of the North Babylon
Board of Education, and a long - time member
of the North Babylon Fire Department,
where he has served as chief.
Nowhere has the debate over the power and perquisites
of schools» building engineers been more heated than in New York
City,
where the
board of education is now engaged in contract negotiations with Local 891
of the International Union
of Operating Engineers.
He currently serves on the
board of trustees for the New York
City Charter School
of the Arts, and teaches at Columbia University's Teachers College,
where he is an Arthur Zankel Fellow and PhD candidate in the English and
Education Program.
But the lessons
of Los Angeles and other big
cities where corporatization once reigned show perhaps a more profound strain
of American
education localism based on largely independent citizen school
boards and voters resisting federalization and private interests.
As the Illinois Supreme Court held in
Board of Education of the
City of Chicago v. Illinois Educational Labor Relations
Board, 215 IL 118043: «A school district may refuse to arbitrate a grievance
where: (1) there is no contractual agreement to arbitrate the substance
of the dispute or (2) the dispute is not arbitrable under section 10 (b)
of the Act because the subject matter
of the dispute conflicts with Illinois law.»