Sentences with phrase «mayoral control of schools»

The extension for mayoral control of schools is set to expire at the end of the month.

We urge the State to extend mayoral control of schools.

He also supported mayoral control of schools and went along with the governor's measures tying teacher evaluations to tests.

There are a lot of big issues to be decided in the final few weeks of the legislative session this year — including mayoral control of the schools and rent regulations.

In the end, most legislators expect mayoral control of schools and the rent laws to be renewed - but the devil will, as always, be in the details.

Either way, it's unlikely lawmakers will let mayoral control of schools lapse entirely.

Both were avid bloggers about public education and recognized they had many shared issues and concerns, particularly around mayoral control of schools and the growing influence of corporate - style education reform.

He asked for mayoral control of schools to become permanent — it was extended for just one year.

Among those matters, his office said, are extending mayoral control of schools and lifting the cap on the number of charter schools.

As Mayor Bill de Blasio on Wednesday called for a permanent extension of mayoral control of schools in New York City, Gov. Andrew Cuomo called it an «experiment» that should be renewed in 2018.

Just look back to the fight over renewing mayoral control of schools in 2009, the administration staunchly resisted governance changes.

The Mayor is currently lobbying Albany for the renewal of mayoral control of the school system, but parents feel that, more than halfway through his term, there is insufficient progress turning around chronically struggling schools.

Whatever else it has and has not done, the system of mayoral control of schools as practiced in New York City must have set some kind of record for the creation of toothless bodies.

She has worked in school systems for more than 40 years, but her proposal for mayoral control of the school district barred her from being interviewed by the city school district's teachers» union.

Team de Blasio's response to that was that they did start early, and the mayor testified in February in Albany on mayoral control of schools and rent control.

There was Cuomo's inability — or unwillingness — to get mayoral control of the schools renewed for more than one year.

Lavine would seek mayoral control of the schools as mayor.

«Under the mayoral control law as it existed until this week, the mayor had total control over co-locations and school sitings,» said David Cantor, an education consultant and former Department of Education press secretary under Bloomberg, who won mayoral control of schools in 2002.

«There's been improvement, but it's not tremendous improvement,» said Viteritti, the Hunter College professor, referring to the NAEP scores in cities with mayoral control of their schools.

Mr. Zuckerman favors Mayoral control of schools, but thinks that Panel members should have fixed terms and not serve at the pleasure of Lord Bloomberg.

Lawler plans to showcase Lavine's qualifications for the city's top job in the coming weeks and will focus on issues like mayoral control of schools, crime and job opportunities.

(She lists five other «solutions» that simply amount to rolling back reforms: Ban for - profit charters and charter chains; eliminate high - stakes standardized testing; don't allow «non-educators» to be teachers, principals, or superintendents; don't allow mayoral control of the schools; don't view education as a «consumer good.»)

It seems de Blasio is headed for more contentious negotiations over mayoral control of schools.

The 2009 state law that renewed mayoral control of schools required that the city hold public hearings and provide information on the effect of the closings.

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.

Even Mayoral control of schools was put into a state of suspended animation instead of receiving a strong extension.

Mayoral Control of Schools Cuomo: The governor's budget includes a three - year extension of mayoral control, which is fairly short compared to the seven - year extension Mayor Michael Bloomberg was able to win during his tenure.

«Next year we can come back, and if he does a good job, then we can say he should have more control,» Cuomo said of de Blasio and mayoral control of schools at a press conference in July.

Cuomo did not endorse NYC Mayor Bill de Blasio's call for permanent mayoral control of schools, saying: «I think it's going well enough to extend it for three years.»

If elected, Lavine also plans to take mayoral control of the school district to ensure positive growth in the school system.

At a Manhattan news conference, the Democratic attorney general praised Duffy's efforts to consolidate agencies and bring mayoral control of schools to New York's third - largest city over the objection of teachers unions.

The law governing mayoral control of the schools, however, must be changed to protect schools like Wadleigh, she said.

Mayor Michael Bloomberg created the Panel to replace the Board of Education after the city gained mayoral control of schools.

The UFT delegates voted overwhelmingly on March 20 to support the 60 - member UFT Task Force on School Governance's recommendations to limit mayoral control of the school system to give more say to parents and communities.

Avella and Thompson had agreed on almost every issue discussed, from mayoral control of schools to anger over the city Department of Buildings, at a mayoral forum in Little Neck in mid-May.

Since mayoral control of the schools was authorized in 2002, ushering in an era of reform, graduation rates have spiked 40 percent overall, with a higher rate of growth for black and Hispanic students.

Wright said he is currently circulating a draft of a bill that would remove mayoral control of the schools, specifically because of the situation happening at schools like Wadleigh.

He calls it an experiment worthy of just a three year - extension — but it wasn't that long ago that Gov. Cuomo hailed mayoral control of schools as the ultimate form of accountability.

«I think [mayoral control of schools] should be applauded — I believe in accountability.

Just as she'd slammed him days before for sauntering off to feed his national ambitions in Miami Beach over the weekend, even as mayoral control of the schools hangs in the balance.

Wiley Norvell, a spokesman for Mr. de Blasio, said, «When a group professing to support education reform opposes mayoral control of schools, it calls into question what exactly it stands for.»

Mayoral control of the schools expires on June 30 and there was no sign Thursday the Legislature would return to session to extend it before then.

They worked to eliminate the Board of Education and institute mayoral control of the school system.

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.

Republican candidate Laura Lavine, who recently proposed mayoral control of the schools, said that could attract more families to the city.

She harshly criticized mayoral control of schools and the proliferation of fines levied against merchants by a slew of city departments.

Booker says he will also pursue mayoral control of the school system after the state returns control of the schools to Newark in 2007.

Thanks for laugh of the day: «the one city in which mayoral control of schools has so far been an unabashed failure»