Sentences with phrase «over city schools»

Past efforts have included fighting for more education funding in the state budget and better governance rules over city schools.

The mayor had once hoped for a permanent grant of control over city schools; the legislature will approve just a year.

Mulgrew made clear that the union was not trying to end mayoral control — just create checks and balances on mayoral power over city schools and greater room for parent and community input.

De Blasio has agreed to do more to help charter schools open or expand as part of the Albany deal that extended his authority over city schools.

State Senate Republicans are prepared to end the legislative session next week without extending the law giving NYC Mayor Bill de Blasio control over the city school system if the Assembly won't negotiate, one insider warns.

Patricia Bombelyn, a lawyer representing three Camden students who last year sued for immediate access to better schools, said the state's decision to take over the city schools bodes well for the lawsuit.

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.

But with the law granting mayoral control over city schools set to expire at midnight June 30 — and Albany's legislative session ending Wednesday — Hizzoner faced the prospect of a crushing defeat that he has said would return «chaos» and «corruption» to education in the city.

Quinn tells WBFO News he believes the powerful New York State United Teachers Union has taken over the city school board, influencing the majority members.

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.

A special session was called Wednesday by Gov. Cuomo specifically to address mayoral leadership over city schools, which was set

A much talked - about provision of Mayor Bill de Blasio's 13th - hour deal to have his control over city schools extended was the agreement that 22 revoked or surrendered charter school charters could be reissued without counting towards the predetermined state cap on the number of charter schools.

Mayor Bill de Blasio and senior members of his administration have been on a full - court press to lobby for mayoral control over the last few weeks, as the fate of the mayor's control over city schools remains unclear in Albany.

Mayor de Blasio says he's holding out hope that he can maintain his control over city schools before it expires at the end of this month — but he sure didn't look that confident Wednesday.

Community control over city schools pitted blacks against Jews.

After overseeing the Philadelphia school system for 16 years, the state - run School Reform Commission (SRC) is disbanding and turning over the city schools to a nine - member, locally appointed school board.

After Senate Republicans proposed a one - year extension last weekend with an independent inspector with new oversight powers over city schools, the bill was met with such dissent that Flanagan was forced to publicly defend his belief in public education over multiple days at the Capitol.

Mayor de Blasio has agreed to do more to help charter schools open or expand as part of the Albany deal that extended his authority over city schools, sources said Thursday.

ALBANY — State Senate Republicans are prepared to end the legislative session next week without extending the law giving Mayor de Blasio control over the city school system if the Assembly won't negotiate, one insider warns.

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.

The Assembly passed a bill granting the mayor three years of control over the city school system on May 16, but the Republican - led Senate is still weighing the issue.

New York City Mayor Bill de Blasio says he plans to put serious heat on state legislators beginning Monday to renew his control over city schools, saying the ramifications of not doing so would be catastrophic.

Perhaps the biggest takeaway from de Blasio's testimony was his call for a permanent extension of mayoral control over city schools.

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.

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

De Blasio's opposition to the cap expansion puts him at odds, again, with the deep - pocketed charter advocates, who have said they would consider opposing the continuation of mayoral control over city schools, which needs to be renewed in June, as leverage in the fight.

De Blasio's power over city schools has already been somewhat diminished by the new pro-charter state law dictating how the city must accommodate charters in both public and private space.

Mayor de Blasio says he plans to put serious heat on state legislators on Monday to renew his control over city schools, saying the ramifications of not doing so would be catastrophic.

The city Education Council Consortium is urging Albany lawmakers to curb the mayor's power over city schools, which is due to expire next month.

The Senate Republicans have not been the only de Blasio critics who questioned his control over city schools.

And Cuomo's feud with Mayor de Blasio stalled the city's receipt of nearly $ 2 billion in new housing funds, failed to revive an affordable - housing tax break and limited de Blasio's control over city schools to one year.

The city Education Council Consortium is urging Albany lawmakers to curb de Blasio's power over city schools, which is due to expire next month.

But achieving a permanent system of control over city schools was always a far - fetched plan, said David Bloomfield, a professor education at CUNY's Graduate Center and Brooklyn College.

The mayor's control over city schools will expire on July 1 if the state legislature does not take action, with the city returning to the former Board of Education system that de Blasio argued would be a disaster for the city.

Michael Mulgrew called the Senate GOP plan to tie the renewal of a law granting de Blasio control over the city school system to an expansion of charter schools «crap.»

ALBANY — The head of the city teachers union dismissed as «a load of crap» state Senate GOP efforts to tie the renewal of a law granting Mayor de Blasio control over the city school system to an expansion of charter schools.

As the Democratic - led Assembly today prepares to vote for a three - year extension of mayoral control over city schools, former Gov. David Pateron is siding with New York City Mayor Bill de Blasio on making the power a permanent one.

When he did discuss the issue of mayoral control over city schools, de Blasio insisted he «could not express the urgency more,» but said the real work would begin, conveniently, next week.

New York City Mayor Bill de Blasio on Sunday said an era of «corruption and chaos» awaits the city's public school system if state lawmakers do not renew a law by Wednesday that grants his office control over city schools.

As a proposal to extend mayoral control of New York City schools by three years gains momentum in Albany, Success Academy C.E.O. Eva Moskowitz says Mayor Bill de Blasio has not earned his authority over city schools.

Unless Albany acts swiftly, Mr. de Blasio's authority over city schools will disappear at the end of next week.

Mayor de Blasio is not happy that a one - year extension giving him control over the city schools, which looked like it would be included in the budget, was ultimately left out.

A one - year extension that would give Mayor de Blasio continued control over city schools was left out of the budget.

De Blasio's ostensible allies among the Senate Democrats are more aligned with the teachers» union view that mayoral control gives parents and local school boards too little power over city schools.

According to Booker, Newark politics have always been rough, and public frustration with 21 years of state control over city schools is understandable.

Mayor Bill de Blasio's authority over city schools was extended for just one year during this past legislative session, so his leadership of city schools will be re-evaluated in a few months.

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.