Sentences with phrase «over mayoral control last»

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Klein, who does not have the same degree of power he had over the last two years, said he remains a staunch supporter of mayoral control, adding that is «hopefuL» it is maintained.

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.

Lawmakers and Gov. Andrew Cuomo last year approved a 12 - month extension for mayoral control after Mayor Bill de Blasio sought making the authority over the city education system permanent.

«Same song, different day,» Heastie told the Daily News last week when asked if he was disturbed that Cuomo seemingly was siding with the Senate Republicans in the mayoral control fight over his fellow Dems in the Assembly.

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.

Sen. Marc Panepinto, who is no fan of the push for mayoral control over the troubled Buffalo public school district, suggested during a CapTon interview last night that there are forces bigger than a certain local assemblywoman behind the effort.

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.

And as he did last year in the debate over the renewal of mayoral school control, Felder is using as leverage several items that are important to New York City Mayor Bill de Blasio, including design - build authority for the rehabilitation of the Brooklyn - Queens Expressway and the authorization of more speed cameras near schools.

Those leaders did as they were asked on Wednesday, releasing a statement in support of mayoral control on behalf of the Coalition of Community Charter Schools, a group that has had a complex relationship with City Hall over the last several months.

De Blasio and his senior officials have repeated the argument on a near - daily basis over the last several weeks that support for mayoral control should not depend upon a certain mayor or set of education policies.

For the last two years, Senate Republicans have used the debate over renewing mayoral control as a months - long — and largely unfavorable — referendum on de Blasio's education agenda.

The de Blasio administration has convened a large coalition of educators, business leaders, and elected officials to advocate for mayoral control over the last several weeks, though Mulgrew has been noticeably absent from the chorus of support.

Torturing de Blasio over mayoral control has been a somewhat lonely quest for Flanagan, a Long Island senator who led the chamber's education committee before becoming majority leader last year.

Opinion polls over the last three years showed voters do not want mayoral control of schools, with a 2017 Quinnipiac University poll showing voters opposed 68 percent to 21 percent.

But during the last year, ever since the Mayor meekly crawled to Albany to beg for a one - year extension, the sticking point in negotiations over the renewal of mayoral control has been the urgency of expanding NYC's public charter school sector, de Blasio's favorite whipping boy, which now serves one out of ten students in NYC, most of them poor and of color.