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APS's plans sparked an interest among residents and at least one city school board members when representatives spoke at the Danzante Community Art Center earlier this month.

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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.

Hernandez, 26, a member of the search committee that picked Leslie Torres - Rodriguez as city schools chief, has served on the board of education since February when he filled a vacancy.

And this happening at a time when six out of nine School Board members in the Buffalo City School Districts minorities!

Buffalo School Board member Sharon Belton Cottman says she believes the state is using an iron fist when it comes to providing funding in the city.

When the meeting was stopped in the Council Chamber, the board members moved to their regular board room and the chanting protestors were kept out of the remainder of the meeting by Buffalo police, City Hall security officers and school security officers.

The ongoing struggle over control of the New York City schools flared up again last week when Chancellor Rudy F. Crew blocked several ousted members of one of the district's community school boards from returning to work.

I am a governing board member of the Gilbert Public Schools District and wish to share constituent input I recently received when a vote of a letter of no objection was before me for a foreign trade zone approval in the City of Mesa.

When the person who wants to be mayor, and who would appoint the members of the Hartford Board of Education, decides to enroll his child or children in a prestigious private school, rather than the city's public schools, it sends out a powerful message about privilege and entitlement.

When U.S. Secretary of Education John King visited Walter Cohen College Prep High School on Friday afternoon in recognition of its dramatic increase in test scores, former board member Kenneth Polite asked him one of the most difficult questions facing the New Orleans education landscape: Why are the city's public schools so segregated, and what can make them more diverse?