Sentences with phrase «republicans over mayoral control»
New York City Mayor Bill de Blasio was initially scheduled to come up to Albany, presumably for a series of non-public meetings with lawmakers amid renewed tensions with Senate Republicans over mayoral control of New York City schools.
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It was one of the most colorful exchanges Monday besides the back and forth between Republican Senator Terrence Murphy and de Blasio over Mayoral control of City schools.
The bill is the opening salvo in a debate over extending mayoral control, which the Republican - backed Senate is expected to support for 12 months.
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.»
Mayor Bill de Blasio, who has been at odds with Senate Republicans over his political support for a Democratic Senate, was neutralized with a one - year extension of mayoral control.
The bitter stand - off over mayoral control of city schools continued over the weekend with state Senate Republican Majority Leader John Flanagan slamming NYC Mayor Bill de Blasio for his resistance to charter schools and de Blasio arguing charters shouldn't be part of negotiations.
Senate Republicans have seemed to reveal their reluctance to take up arms over mayoral control with a series of off - script moments that have embarrassed Flanagan.
«I hope that the State Senate will listen to the voices of Republicans and Democrats, listen to my two predessesors, Michael Bloomberg and Rudy Guiliani who agree as I do that we need mayoral control of education, listen to over 100 prominent business leaders who yesterday signed onto a letter calling for renewal of mayoral control,» he said.
They cited the Republican candidate's plans to hire additional police officers and institute mayoral control over the Syracuse City School District as reasons for the endorsement.
A source said Cuomo spent Wednesday trying to broker a deal over mayoral control, which balanced the desire of Senate Republicans (which Cuomo shares) to increase the number of charter schools against the Democrat - dominated Assembly's refusal to budge.
«Same song, different day,» Heastie told the Daily News last week when asked if he was disturbed that Cuomo seemingly was siding with the Senate Republicans in the mayoral control fight over his fellow Dems in the Assembly.
In 2016, in exchange for granting Mayor Bill de Blasio an extension of mayoral control over schools, the Republicans in the State Senate, to whom Ms. Moskowitz has close ties, inserted broad language in the legislation giving SUNY the power to promulgate regulations for the schools it oversees.
In a shot directly at Mayor Bill de Blasio, the state Senate Republicans on Friday quietly introduced a bill that would extend New York city mayoral control over the schools for just a year while at the same time giving the governor a role in how the city system is run.
Seeking to claim the moral high ground in his ongoing battle with the Senate Republicans over the renewal of mayoral control, de Blasio skipped a second hearing on the subject held by the conference in Manhattan.
Nevertheless, Senate Republicans got their victories in the state budget process and have little incentive to roll over now on helping their political nemesis, Mayor Bill de Blasio, win a lengthy or permanent extension of mayoral control.
Republicans, too, will have clout over extending mayoral control of New York City schools as well as rent regulations, both of which expire next year.
And there was the discordant thud last Wednesday night, when Assembly Speaker Carl Heastie, a Democrat, and Senate Majority Leader John Flanagan, a Republican, declared they were sending their members home without doing one of the few things that actually came with a deadline: extending mayoral control for New York City's schools, a system that both houses and parties view as a vast improvement over the old system of board control.
ALBANY — In a shot directly at Mayor de Blasio, the state Senate Republicans on Friday quietly introduced a bill that would extend New York city mayoral control over the schools for just a year while at the same time giving the governor a role in how the city system is run.
For the last two years, Senate Republicans have used the debate over renewing mayoral control as a months - long — and largely unfavorable — referendum on de Blasio's education agenda.