Sentences with phrase «mayoral control of the school system»

«Mayor Bloomberg ran for Mayor in 2001 on a platform of Mayoral control of the school system.

The UFT delegates voted overwhelmingly on March 20 to support the 60 - member UFT Task Force on School Governance's recommendations to limit mayoral control of the school system to give more say to parents and communities.

They worked to eliminate the Board of Education and institute mayoral control of the school system.

Booker says he will also pursue mayoral control of the school system after the state returns control of the schools to Newark in 2007.

He may despise de Blasio but Republican City Council Member, and 2017 mayoral candidate, Eric Ulrich is an unabashed supporter of a long term extension of mayoral control of the school system.

The UFT delegates voted overwhelmingly on March 20 to support the 60 - member UFT Task Force on School Governance's recommendations to scale back mayoral control of the school system.

The Mayor is currently lobbying Albany for the renewal of mayoral control of the school system, but parents feel that, more than halfway through his term, there is insufficient progress turning around chronically struggling schools.

In an unusual moment of agreement Mayor Bill de Blasio and former mayor Rudy Giuliani recently wrote a joint letter to Governor Cuomo and the state legislature urging a continuation of mayoral control of the school system.

In this age of mayoral control of school systems, mayors in other jurisdictions can choose a school superintendent and still be held accountable to the voters for that choice.