The Senate GOP leader has tried to counteract Cuomo's efforts to elect Democrats, saying a vote for a Democratic candidate is a vote for New York
City control of the legislature, and it's Mayor, Bill deBlasio.
Not exact matches
Mayoral
control of New York
City schools is set to expire, threatening to plunge the school system into chaos, unless the state
legislature passes a law extending the program.
If approved, this level
of local
control would fly in the face
of actions taken this session by the
legislature, which stripped New York
City of the ability to impose a bag tax.
The New York
legislature was closing down on an end -
of - session deal that would strip convicted lawmakers
of their pensions, extend mayoral
control of New York
City schools for one more year, and legalize daily fantasy sports gambling.
The political prospects
of that plan are murky at best — the state
legislature controls the
city's minimum wage, and Gov. Andrew Cuomo has proposed a considerably smaller hike.
The state
legislature was closing in on an end -
of - session deal that would strip convicted lawmakers
of their pensions, extend mayoral
control of New York
City schools for one more year, and legalize daily fantasy sports gambling.
Cuomo also expressed skepticism that the state
legislature will renew Mayor Bill de Blasio's
control of city schools, raising the possibility that a decentralized board
of education could re-emerge in running the school system.
Gov. Cuomo says the state
legislature fell down on the job by leaving town without passing an extension
of mayoral
control for the New York
City schools, and he has not ruled out calling them back for a special session.
Her warm - up act included several female firsts: State Senator Andrea Stewart - Cousins, the first female legislative conference leader in the New York State, Assemblywoman Deborah Glick, the
legislature's first openly lesbian member, and Public Advocate Letitia James, the first woman
of color to hold citywide office in New York
City, as well as city first lady Chirlane McCray and former congresswoman Gabby Giffords, who is now one of the country's best - known advocates for gun cont
City, as well as
city first lady Chirlane McCray and former congresswoman Gabby Giffords, who is now one of the country's best - known advocates for gun cont
city first lady Chirlane McCray and former congresswoman Gabby Giffords, who is now one
of the country's best - known advocates for gun
control.
De Blasio's proposal would raise income taxes on New York
City residents who earn over $ 500,000, which requires approval from both the
legislature in Albany, where the State Senate is partially
controlled by Republicans, and the signature
of Gov. Andrew Cuomo, who has emphasized his desire to cut taxes in next year's budget.
Having chaired the influential Committee on Codes since the early 1990s, Mr. Lentol has had decades to cement bonds with the veteran lawmakers in the Assembly and could pitch himself as the experienced hand required to guide the
legislature through one
of the more pivotal sessions in years (rent laws and the mayoral
control of city public schools are both set to expire.)
But the pressure mounted on the governor to deliver deals on rent regulations, mayoral
control of New York
City schools, and other big - ticket items, all while the
legislature remained in turmoil thanks to their leadership crises.
Mayor Bill de Blasio called in his State
of the
City address for New York
City to be able to set its own minimum wage, which is currently
controlled by the state
legislature — but Gov. Andrew Cuomo was originally opposed to the idea, saying different minimum wages would be «chaotic.»
This kind
of local
control is not unique to New York
City government, says Paul Graziano, an urban planning consultant and Queens preservationist, who said the practice occurs «pretty much everywhere around the country» in state
legislatures and in the federal government.
Hizzoner stormed out
of a town hall meeting in Lower Manhattan Wednesday night, just as the state
legislature was about to adjourn for the summer without renewing mayoral
control of New York
City's school.
That is because the law largely took
control of rent regulation out
of the hands
of the
city government and gave it to the state
legislature.
To prepare for the time when the law would be either renewed or allowed to expire, the
legislature asked the public advocate for the
City of New York to appoint a commission to study the issue
of mayoral
control and make recommendations to the
legislature.
When the New York state
legislature gave
control of the New York
City schools to the mayor in 2002, a sunset provision was included, with a deadline
of June 2009.
When the Illinois
legislature gave Chicago Mayor Richard M. Daley direct
control of the
city's faltering school system in 1995, Daley appointed Vallas, the
city's budget director, to take the reins
of the nation's third largest district.
In the nation's largest
city, New York City Mayor Michael Bloomberg has been in charge of the nation's largest school system since 2002, when the state legislature approved legislation putting the 1.1 - million - student system under control of the New York City ma
city, New York
City Mayor Michael Bloomberg has been in charge of the nation's largest school system since 2002, when the state legislature approved legislation putting the 1.1 - million - student system under control of the New York City ma
City Mayor Michael Bloomberg has been in charge
of the nation's largest school system since 2002, when the state
legislature approved legislation putting the 1.1 - million - student system under
control of the New York
City ma
City mayor.
In the weeks after the storm, the Louisiana
legislature changed its previous definition
of an academically failing school to be able to take
control of the vast majority
of schools in the
city.
Mayoral
control of city schools was started by de Blasio's predecessor, Michael Bloomberg, who convinced the
legislature to grant him leadership for seven years in 2002, and a six - year extension in 2009.
Historically, marriage has been subject to the
control of state
legislatures (in the District
of Columbia, the
City Council).