Sentences with phrase «rebny about mayoral control»
Assembly Democrats haven't been crazy, historically, about mayoral control, which began under Mayor Michael Bloomberg.
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Parsons said he was planning on calling the governor personally to talk to him about mayoral control, and Wylde said members of her group had spoken with «all the officials in Albany about the importance of this issue.»
The administration touched base with REBNY about mayoral control again when the state legislative session was winding down in June 2015.
On Monday, Flanagan said he had questions about mayoral control for New York City, which is due to expire next month.
«I think Leader Flanagan has made clear that he understands what's good about mayoral control.
What I find striking about the mayoral control debate is the false assumption that there exists a wide consensus on the need for it.
But Assembly Minority Leader Brian Kolb (R - Ontario / Seneca) noted that every conversation about mayoral control throughout the year was linked with either charter schools or sales - tax extenders.
Success Academy founder Eva Moskowitz, who has fought with de Blasio over the role of charter schools in the city, said earlier Wednesday that she agrees with him about mayoral control.
It also asks broader questions about mayoral control, and the selection process for the education commissioner and the Board of Regents.
Devora Kaye, a D.O.E. spokeswoman who handles inquiries about mayoral control, did not directly respond to Moskowitz's comments, focusing instead on the P.E.P. vote.
The court found that the Department of Education failed to reveal the true impact of closing the schools, as required by a 2009 state law about mayoral control of schools.
Mayor de Blasio and NYC Schools Chancellor Carmen Farina speak a state Senate committee about mayoral control on May 4th.
The annual extensions have become a pattern, as Cuomo is disinclined to back de Blasio's request, Assembly Democrats have long been ambivalent about mayoral control in general, and Senate Republicans continue to seek revenge whenever possible after de Blasio tried and failed to upend their majority in 2014.
«What would you do about mayoral control in NYC, and do you support mayoral control in other municipalities?»
Reeher: Laura Lavine, I want to give you a chance and come back in and rebut some of the things because you've put forward something quite specific about mayoral control.
Any discussion about mayoral control must first be had in Yonkers before making its way to Albany, they said.
about mayoral control, non-educators running public school systems, Klein's legacy, and who Cathie Black was — and wasn't; we saw Steiner appoint an eight - member panel of experts to advise him on whether to grant a legally - required waiver to non-educator Black, Checker call the need for a waiver «antiquated,» the special panel recommend no waiver, polls showing New Yorkers opposing Black, a flurry of celebs — including Gloria Steinem and Whoopee Goldberg — weighing in to support her, Steiner losing sleep.
In this two - year study, Research for Action (RFA), working in collaboration with Jeffrey Henig of Teachers College, assessed the formation and development of a coalition of organizing and advocacy groups, funded by the Donors» Education Collaborative (DEC), and their impact on the debate about the mayoral control of schools in New York City (NYC).
Our proposal keeps what works about mayoral control while calling for a system that is more accountable, more transparent and more democratic.
For these politicians, the discussion about mayoral control is just another game.
So if that is the theater involved in the issue, there remains a central, not often asked, question: What about mayoral control makes it essential for running the nation's largest school system?
Not exact matches
«Senator Marcellino and the members of the education committee will seek information about what is being done to fix underperforming schools and other specific plans to improve and strengthen the city school system so that the state's examination of mayoral control is as comprehensive as possible.»
«With the future of mayoral control at stake, Mayor de Blasio has left too many unanswered questions about his stewardship of the New York City school system.»
«Mayoral control in the city of New York was a five year process, so if this is the first year of that process, let's have a community dialogue about it.
Since then it's been a fight every year over whether to renew Mayoral control of New York City schools, with Flanagan and the Republicans dangling it over the Mayor like Lt. Pete Mitchell telling «Charlie» Blackwood in «Top Gun» that the information about his encounter with the enemy Mig was «classified.»
De Blasio, meanwhile, stormed out of a town hall meeting in Lower Manhattan last night, just as the state legislature was about to adjourn for the summer without renewing mayoral control.
«They'll hear about it from (newspaper) editorial boards and they'll start to get the word,» he said of the pressure on Assembly Democrats to renew mayoral control.
Not one of the questioners during the nearly four - hour hearing seemed to indicate that they would vote against a mayoral control extension, even though a few senators asked de Blasio pointed questions about the various investigations circling his administration and other disparate education issues.
Mr. Adams is a longtime critic of mayoral control of schools in New York City — and at times a mayoral foe — but he said his worries about Ms. Mirrer are unrelated to those objections.
«We have given the Assembly and Mayor de Blasio three different options that would each extend mayoral control and ensure the continuity they crave, and we have even signaled our willingness to have further discussions about other options,» Flanagan said.
Mayor Byron Brown says he is open to mayoral control if that's what it takes to improve Buffalo's schools, but feels a conversation is needed with parents and others in the city — and statewide — about how to reform public education.
Said Klein: «We're still just talking, generally, about how we can get there on mayoral control — hopefully with a two - year extender.»
Even though the current mayoral control law expires in 2015, we will be talking with legislators who share our concerns about the importance of putting in place as soon as possible a new governance structure.
As much as the renewal of mayoral control looks like a battle between city - based Democrats who back de Blasio and Long Island and rural Republicans who oppose him, it is city legislators whose constituents live within the system and who want to have a nuanced discussion about reforming it.
ALBANY — Legislative leaders continue to talk with Gov. Andrew Cuomo about a «grand plan» to renew mayoral control of New York City schools, reauthorize sales taxes around the state and, possibly, increase the number of charter schools.
Just as Mr. Cuomo was unenthusiastic about permanent mayoral control, Mr. de Blasio was unenthusiastic about Mr. Cuomo's education reform agenda, particularly his push to increase the use of standardized testing to measure teachers and his plans to take state control of struggling schools.
After the debate, we asked him about a frequent topic of discussion among the mayoral candidates: mayoral / city control of the MTA.
At a press conference Wednesday Mayor de Blasio was asked whether Governor Cuomo's characterization of mayoral control of schools as an «experiment» and his proposal that mayoral control be renewed for a shortened three year period «raises questions about whether or not he's a true reformer on education.»
When asked about attending hearings by Gotham Gazette de Blasio said on Monday that he had expected them and welcomes the chance to discuss mayoral control.
When Mayor de Blasio arrived in Albany on Tuesday, he had a lot to talk about: aid to CUNY, cost - sharing for Medicaid, mayoral control of the schools and more.
«The Senate didn't favor extending mayoral control and had many reservations about how it was working under the mayor.
NYC Mayor Bill de Blasio characterized the state Legislature's one year extension of mayoral control as «unfair» in an interview with POLITICO New York — his first public comments about the end of the legislative session.
The ruling, by the Appellate Division, First Department, in Manhattan, upheld a lower court finding that the city's Education Department did not comply with the 2009 state law on mayoral control of the city schools because it failed to adequately notify the public about the ramifications of the closings.
As employers of more than a million New Yorkers, we urge you to act now to end the uncertainty about the future governance of our city schools and extend the current mayoral control law as well as expanding the number of charter schools.
She spoke with host Gary Axelbank about her abstention in the vote on mayoral control, the concept of mayoral control, charter schools, how the system mgiht be run to maximum effiency, lessons learned from her tenure as president at Hostos CC, and numerous other topics.
Given the fact there are members who oppose mayoral control for any period of time, the conference simply doesn't care enough about extending the law to expend its political capital on it, several members said in interviews with Capital on Tuesday.
ALBANY — Mayor Bill de Blasio came to Albany to talk about lots of things: funding for helping the homeless, extending mayoral control, making sure proposed cuts to Medicaid and city university budgets don't «cost the city a penny,» as he and Gov. Andrew Cuomo put it.
De Blasio introduced the subject of mayoral control by finishing remarks on his son Dante's impending graduation and saying, «let's talk about something a little less sweet; let's talk about the situation in Albany right now.»
«This becomes too much of a political football often in Albany, where the discussion is, unless there's additional changes in favor of charters, people talk about perhaps not extending mayoral control of education,» he said on the John Catsimatidis AM 970 radio show.
While it was understandable for the legislature to want to revisit mayoral control periodically and fine - tune it, he said, the decision about whether to renew it «shouldn't be based on one individual, one mayor.»