Sentences with phrase «over mayoral control with»

Massey blamed de Blasio for the current impasse over mayoral control with just days left in the legislative session, but said state senators should nonetheless sign off on an extension of at least six months to a year.

Senate Republicans have seemed to reveal their reluctance to take up arms over mayoral control with a series of off - script moments that have embarrassed Flanagan.

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.»

Since then it's been a fight every year over whether to renew Mayoral control of New York City schools, with Flanagan and the Republicans dangling it over the Mayor like Lt. Pete Mitchell telling «Charlie» Blackwood in «Top Gun» that the information about his encounter with the enemy Mig was «classified.»

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.

Mayor Bill de Blasio, who has been at odds with Senate Republicans over his political support for a Democratic Senate, was neutralized with a one - year extension of mayoral control.

The bitter stand - off over mayoral control of city schools continued over the weekend with state Senate Republican Majority Leader John Flanagan slamming NYC Mayor Bill de Blasio for his resistance to charter schools and de Blasio arguing charters shouldn't be part of negotiations.

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.

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.

Since the state legislature is on repeat — glossing over ethics, fighting over mayoral control and feverishly working late nights to finish on time — the podcast is following their lead and sharing clips from past episodes (but with a new introduction).

Under her plan for mayoral control over Syracuse schools, Lavine said she would pick school board members with the advice and consent of the Syracuse Common Council.

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.

The expiration was the result of a stalemate over whether mayoral control should be linked with provisions to grow New York City's charter school sector.

«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.

Today, he said he'd also made those thoughts known to new Assembly Speaker Carl Heastie, a Bronx Democrat, and again argued that state receivership was unnecessary in a city with mayoral control over schools.

Her proposal of mayoral control over the Syracuse City School District, though, has been met with controversy.

Ken Lovett: «The fate of mayoral control over New York City schools could come down to a political game of chicken, with the Assembly Democrats in the position to force the Senate GOP into a take it - or - leave it three - year extension of the expiring law, insiders say.»

Seeking to claim the moral high ground in his ongoing battle with the Senate Republicans over the renewal of mayoral control, de Blasio skipped a second hearing on the subject held by the conference in Manhattan.

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.

New York City Mayor Bill de Blasio was initially scheduled to come up to Albany, presumably for a series of non-public meetings with lawmakers amid renewed tensions with Senate Republicans over mayoral control of New York City schools.

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 by not picking a battle with Cuomo over mayoral control, the Assembly and de Blasio may have more leverage on issues like the tax credit, and, of particular interest to de Blasio, the charter cap.

The fight over extending mayoral control of New York City schools is heating up with state Sen. Majority Leader John Flanagan said he can't consider the issue until he knows how the city spends $ 9 billion in state funds.

Gov. Andrew Cuomo signaled today that the contentious issue of mayoral control over New York City public schools — along with several other major policy debates — will «more likely» be decided during the regular legislative session, after the state budget deadline of April 1.

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.

Success Academy founder Eva Moskowitz, who has fought with de Blasio over the role of charter schools in the city, said earlier Wednesday that she agrees with him about mayoral control.

Virtually all of the deals reached were less than desired as far as de Blasio was concerned, with the one - year extension of mayoral control of schools an especially bitter pill - and perhaps the final nudge over the edge.

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'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.

To her credit, Chancellor Rhee has not deviated with the anticipated improvement of that plan and has used the leverage that she was given, with Mayoral control over the schools, to get things done faster.

Wilbur Rich, a professor emeritus of political science at Wellesley College in Massachusetts, said he wouldn't call any of the experiments with mayoral control a success - not until the gains are larger or sustained over a longer time.

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.