Sentences with phrase «mayor control over the schools»

Charter school advocates may gain power if a law giving the mayor control over the schools expires and the old Board of Education structure returns.

Before the Legislature gave the mayor control over the schools in 2002, they were governed by a Board of Education and 32 elected community school boards.

Not exact matches

With nagging questions over the leadership of the Buffalo Public School District, and some suggesting full mayoral control is the answer, a Buffalo - area state senator has drafted compromise legislation that would give the mayor «input.»

De Blasio said that he has talked to Senate Majority Leader John Flanagan only once in recent weeks — last Thursday or Friday — a sign of his rocky relationship with the Republican who year after year has seemed to relish tormenting the mayor over the issue of school control.

There's also the sticky question of why anyone would be willing to hand control of the schools over to the mayor of Rochester when it's unclear if the champion of that measure will even be around to implement it.

Flanagan's statement was a scathing, if unsurprising, reminder that de Blasio's control over 1,800 New York City schools is largely dependent on a group of Senate Republicans that have seemed to encourage his political failure at every turn after the mayor tried and failed to unseat the Senate's Republican majority in the 2014 elections.

When asked whether the state or the mayor would have control over the schools, Heastie said: «The mayor and the chancellor put together a turnaround program, and we wanted to make sure, particularly in the Assembly, that they have that opportunity.»

It renewed rent regulations for over a million apartments in New York City, authorized property tax rebates for 2.5 million homeowners on Long Island and upstate, restructured and extended a tax subsidy for the real estate industry — the biggest source of state campaign contributions — and authorized New York City mayor Bill de Blasio's control of city schools for another year.

Before the mayor had even finished testifying in the four - hour hearing before a joint Senate and Assembly panel, Mr. Cuomo had said he opposed Mr. de Blasio's push for permanent control over schools, calling the arrangement an «experiment» and saying it should be renewed in three - year spurts.

At the end of June this year the law that grants New York's mayor control over city schools will expire.

First on the governors agenda is the extension of the New York City mayor's control over the city's school system.

The Democratic - controlled Assembly has already drafted a bill to give the mayor three more years of oversight over the city's school system.

But the biggest and most difficult remaining issue in the session issue is an extension of the mayor of New York City's authority over the city's public schools, known as mayoral control.

State takeover would strip de Blasio of most of his power over low - performing schools, which the mayor has argued would be anathema to the system of mayoral control.

The hostilities between the mayor and the governor have only escalated in the last year over a variety of concerns, including mayoral control of New York City schools and proposed cuts in funding to the City University of New York, tumbling into public view with a rare intensity, even for two jobs that are often in conlfict.

An off - the - books charter school deal between de Blasio and State Senate Republicans paved the way for the mayor to win control over city schools for another two years.

The mayor said he plans to push both parties in the Senate to extend his control over the city's public school system next year.

She embarrassed the administration during a public fight over charter school space in the spring of 2014 by enlisting the support of Governor Andrew Cuomo, and she undermined the mayor on his frustrating bid to extend mayoral control over city schools in the latest legislative session.

Depending on what happens in the coming session, this could turn out to have been a first step in weakening the mayor's control over the city's public school system.

The GOP - controlled Senate warned it's prepared to leave without extending the mayor's authority over New York City schools if the Democratic - controlled Assembly refuses to negotiate on its priorities, which include more charter schools.

Moskowitz's argument that de Blasio has not earned the right to hold control of the New York City schools is the precise opposite of the claim the mayor, his allies and even some of his critics have been making as the debate over renewing mayoral control intensifies in Albany.

Regaining mayoral control of schools was one Michael Bloomberg's greatest legislative achievements as mayor; it marked the first time City Hall gained discretion over education policy since the Lindsay administration, when those powers were decentralized and major decisions were made by an education board.

ALBANY — While one part of the State Senate leadership coalition pushes to limit mayoral control over schools in New York City, the other part is proposing to give more control over schools to Yonkers mayor Mike Spano.

And - New York City Mayor Bill deBlasio is seeking renewal of a law that gives the mayor more control over the school system.

When former U.S. congressman and Obama administration chief of staf Rahm Emanuel marched triumphantly into the Chicago mayor's office in 2011, he promised to revamp Chicago Public Schools (CPS) in ways that had barely been contemplated in 16 years of mayoral control over the city's sprawling public - school system.

Longtime Chicago mayor Richard M. Daley had won control over the school system in 1995 and generally received accolades for rising scores on state tests; hard - charging superintendents, including Paul Vallas and Arne Duncan; tough accountability measures such as reduced social promotion; and a slew of new schools and shiny buildings.

Klein has served as Schools Chancellor under Mayor Michael Bloomberg since 2002, when the mayor's office gained control over the city's sSchools Chancellor under Mayor Michael Bloomberg since 2002, when the mayor's office gained control over the city's schoolsschools.

A bill in the Ohio legislature that would hand Cleveland's mayor broad control over his city's beleaguered public schools is a shoo - in for passage, several school officials, lawmakers, and union leaders say.

When former U.S. congressman and Obama administration chief of staff Rahm Emanuel marched triumphantly into the Chicago mayor's office in 2011, he promised to revamp Chicago Public Schools (CPS) in ways that had barely been contemplated in 16 years of mayoral control over the city's sprawling public - school system.

Under the plan, the mayor is to get more or less direct control over three low - performing high schools and the elementary and middle schools that feed into them.

In fact, for all the talk about the «democratic values» implicit in local control, the decibel level of the past few years has been caused less by a legitimate debate about the merits of the work than an internecine fight over which faction would control the local teachers union, a mayor's race pitting «old» vs. «new» Newark (read: Sharpe revanchists vs. Cory defenders), and the aspirations of what Curvin calls the «resource distributors» — those who view the power and wealth allocation opportunities of the school system as an end in itself.

The examples of mayors Richard Daley in Chicago and Michael Bloomberg in New York City» both of whom sought and won direct control over their city's school systems — have inspired other mayors, such as Anthony Williams in Washington, D.C., to press for the power to appoint the school board's members or dissolve the board altogether.

A compromise may be within reach in the difficult negotiations between Mayor Michael R. Bloomberg of New York and state lawmakers over the mayor's wish to have greater control of the nation's largest school district.

It would allow the mayor of Milwaukee to take over control of that city's struggling school district.

And while our members work in schools that are under - resourced, understaffed and under - appreciated, they have toiled in silence long enough while the mayors of this city have exerted control, shut down schools, and handed over facilities to their well - connected friends.

Mr. de Blasio's departure from the Bloomberg philosophy of school reform has skeptics in Albany, particularly among Republicans in the Senate, who granted the mayor, a Democrat, just a one - year extension of his control over city schools, requiring him to make his case for another extension next year.

She embarrassed the administration during a public fight over charter school space in the spring of 2014 by enlisting the support of Governor Andrew Cuomo, and she undermined the mayor on his frustrating bid to extend mayoral control over city schools in the latest legislative session.

That means the mayor has direct control over how the city's schools operate, and a central authority makes decisions citywide.