While the Mayor's most recent predecessor Mike Bloomberg, with Chancellor Joel Klein, used a two - pronged strategy, approaching reform both from within the system (doubling down
on accountability and giving principals more
autonomy) and from without (rapidly expanding school choice through charter schools), de Blasio and his Chancellor Carmen Fariña, who share what Alexander Nazaryan calls an «out - sized antipathy» towards charters, are
betting the whole ball of wax
on an inside job.