Sentences with phrase «mayoral control of the system»
The mayor has long criticized using standardized testing as a metric for school performance, even as he has cited rising results in his appeals to Albany for a continuation of mayoral control of the system.
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The Senate GOP will block any effort by the Democrats to end mayoral control of the NYC public school system.
«Mayor Bloomberg ran for Mayor in 2001 on a platform of Mayoral control of the school system.
«Senator Marcellino and the members of the education committee will seek information about what is being done to fix underperforming schools and other specific plans to improve and strengthen the city school system so that the state's examination of mayoral control is as comprehensive as possible.»
«With the future of mayoral control at stake, Mayor de Blasio has left too many unanswered questions about his stewardship of the New York City school system.»
Senate Republicans plan to cover a range of issues with mayoral control, includnig student performance, graduation rates, and «the effectiveness of having a single person accountable for the public school system as compared to the previous community board system.»
At 11 a.m., NYC Mayor Bill de Blasio will deliver remarks at a rally on the City Hall steps in Lower Manhattan, urging the extension of mayoral control of the New York City school system immediately.
Senate Majority Leader John Flanagan decided last last night to call an audible and declare the 2017 legislative session over, without a deal in place to extend mayoral control of the NYC school system.
The Legislature and governor ended the extraordinary session by granting a two - year extension of mayoral control over New York City's schools, ending months of uncertainty over Mayor Bill de Blasio's leadership of the nation's largest school system and its 1.1 million students a day before it was to expire.
Senate Republicans plan to cover a range of issues with mayoral control, including student performance, graduation rates, and «the effectiveness of having a single person accountable for the public school system as compared to the previous community board system.»
UFT President Michael Mulgrew said that efforts in the state Senate to tie mayoral control of the New York City school system to an expansion of charter schools is «a load of crap.»
What we're looking at now is an extremely active post-budget session, with everything on the table — from the charter cap and DREAM / EITC to the NYC rent laws and mayoral control over the NYC school system, both of which sunset early in the summer.
Heck, lawmakers till have several hours of daylight during which they could come to some sort of agreement that would extend mayoral control of the NYC school system, which is set to sunset at midnight Friday.
Our children's futures hang in the balance,» de Blasio said, warning of dire consequences if Albany doesn't renew mayoral control of the NYC school system.»
With the fate of mayoral control over the city school system hanging in the balance, insiders are amazed at how little behind - the - scenes negotiations there's been.
After asking for a seven - year mayoral control extension at the start of this year's legislative session, de Blasio is now calling on the Legislature to renew the system for three years.
Mayoral control of New York City schools is set to expire, threatening to plunge the school system into chaos, unless the state legislature passes a law extending the program.
«People have concluded the stakes are too high to mess around with the governance system,» Wylde, who has led the local business sector's support of mayoral control, said in an interview.
Various advocacy issues — none of which explicitly have to do with the governance system of mayoral control — were on display in the cramped hearing room on Thursday.
Since mayoral control was first enacted in 2002, there has been significant improvement in the city's education system and it is gratifying that this will continue,» stated Kathryn Wylde, President and CEO of the Partnership for New York City.
If elected, Lavine also plans to take mayoral control of the school district to ensure positive growth in the school system.
She does believe that mayoral control of the New York City public school system should have been extended beyond the one year that the state Legislature gave Mayor Bill de Blasio «There is an element for the mayor to have some skin in the game,» she said.
The New York State Legislature is approaching its final week of the 2017 session, and agreements on outstanding issues, including mayoral control over the state's largest school system, remain elusive.
New York's mayoral control system allows the chancellor to operate without the politically cumbersome presence of an elected school board.
But if the principle of mayoral control was enough to ensure that Bloomberg got a total of 13 years as head of the school system, why has Mayor de Blasio had to fight to get even one - year extensions of the mayoral control law?
If mayoral control is not renewed before it sunsets next month, the system will return to the former system of local control, a scenario Fariña described Thursday as a «nightmare.»
He may despise de Blasio but Republican City Council Member, and 2017 mayoral candidate, Eric Ulrich is an unabashed supporter of a long term extension of mayoral control of the school system.
While the state Assembly approved a measure extending mayoral control for two years, the leader of the GOP - controlled Senate sent de Blasio a letter demanding more information on how the school system spends state funds.
Legislation aimed at repealing mayoral control of the city's school system was dead on arrival in the Republican - led state Senate.
Regarding mayoral control of the school system, Mr. Lander accepts direct appointment of the Chancellor by the mayor but thinks that education policy should be vetted by a separate board that is not controlled by mayoral appointees, in order to levy checks on the system.
He urged more parental control of the school system: «I am not for mayoral control, but more parental control.»
But as it fights to secure a substantial renewal of mayoral control this legislative session, City Hall is trying to show that support for the governance system should transcend support for a particular politician or set of agenda items.
He also supports Mayoral control of the school system, though he believes that parents should be given input and teachers should have «flexibility.»
«Mayoral control works for our city schools and has developed a successful system of accountability and organization which should continue,» Klein said.
CEO members of the Partnership for New York City today urged legislative action to maintain mayoral control of the city school system for at least three years.
When de Blasio came to Albany in February to testify before the Legislature he sold mayoral control as essential to city schools» chance at success, despite the fact he had once voraciously opposed Mayor Bloomberg's use of the same system.
The state Senate returned to session on Aug. 6 and passed a bill to renew mayoral control of the city's public schools, along with other related bills to increase parental input in the school system and address some of the other flaws in the original legislation.
Meanwhile, Mayor de Blasio's bid to continue mayoral control of the city school system has strong support (61 %) from New York City residents, but less statewide.
Ann Marie Hurt, the chapter leader at PS 328 in Brooklyn, supports a resolution to end mayoral control of the New York City public school system.
ALBANY — With just three scheduled days left in the legislative session and the fate of mayoral control over the city school system hanging in the balance, insiders are amazed at how little behind - the - scenes negotiations there's been.
Mulgrew said that he has gone on the record in opposition to the current system of mayoral control, which shuts out the voices of parents, educators and community members.
Mayoral control was introduced in 2002 to replace the older system of a Board of Education dominated by borough president appointees and local elected school boards which were, in some cases, corrupt.
The UFT delegates voted overwhelmingly on March 20 to support the 60 - member UFT Task Force on School Governance's recommendations to scale back mayoral control of the school system.
As much as the renewal of mayoral control looks like a battle between city - based Democrats who back de Blasio and Long Island and rural Republicans who oppose him, it is city legislators whose constituents live within the system and who want to have a nuanced discussion about reforming it.
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.
They are joined by nonprofit leaders who have scrutinized DOE practices for years, including under Mayor Michael Bloomberg, who first won mayoral control of city schools in 2002, ending the old Board of Education system.
But most humiliating, he was granted mayoral control of the city's school system for a mere year — meaning he's going to have to beg Albany yet again to let him stay in charge of city schools, even though no rational person really believes New York City would be better off with the old Board of Education.
The state Legislature is approaching its final week of the 2017 session, and agreements on outstanding issues, including mayoral control over the state's largest school system, remain elusive.
Spitzer and Mike Bloomberg may have issues over mayoral control of the New York school system.
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.