Sentences with phrase «without mayoral»

Some cities, such as Atlanta and San Diego, have achieved larger gains in NAEP scores without mayoral control.

Both the auditor and the clerk can hire budgeted employees without mayoral approval.

Our elected council of parent keeps asking for answers to contradictions like these and keeps finding a common problem: mayoral control of city schools without mayoral responsibility.

Arguing that advances in career and technical education could not have been made without mayoral control, de Blasio said, «we can do it, why, because of mayoral control of education.

«We wouldn't have universal pre-K without mayoral control,» she said, to applause from the audience of public school parents.

«We wouldn't have Renewal schools and community schools without mayoral control.»

Without mayoral control, running the schools would fall to local elected school boards.

Mr. de Blasio argued that his expansion of universal prekindergarten and his efforts to fund struggling schools would not have been possible without mayoral control.

That effort, they said, could not have happened without mayoral control, which is up for renewal in June.

Not exact matches

As I wrote in my blog post about the first Mayoral candidates forum in September, I generally believe that Mayor Mandel has done a good job over the past six years, but it is not without reservation that I will give him my vote on October 18, 2010.

«Right now, without a sponsor, it would be hard to confirm a date for 2015,» Kevin Harris, spokesperson for the Baltimore mayoral office confirmed.

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.

De Blasio, meanwhile, stormed out of a town hall meeting in Lower Manhattan last night, just as the state legislature was about to adjourn for the summer without renewing mayoral control.

Cuomo blamed the failure to get a mayoral control deal on the Assembly Democrats, and said the fact that lawmakers left Albany without an agreement was a «dereliction of duty.»

The 2017 legislative session saw the first budget to be approved after the start of the state's fiscal year since 2010 and ended without an agreement on re-authorizing mayoral control of New York City schools.

Since 2007, councils can adopt the elected mayoral model without a referendum.

New York's mayoral control system allows the chancellor to operate without the politically cumbersome presence of an elected school board.

His office has not released any post-mortem statements since the Senate and Assembly adjourned the 2017 session without taking up a mayoral control measure and extending local tax provisions.

In a dramatic turnaround from the bribery and fraud charges leveled three years ago, a former high - ranking NYPD police chief pleaded guilty in federal court to dispatching police resources without permission for the benefit of a mayoral donor and other residents of Brooklyn's Borough Park neighborhood.

In a twist Malliotakis, the only one of the four top mayoral candidates without any Italian ancestry, declared that «a vote for Columbus is a vote for Malliotakis.»

The New York Post's David Seifman reported Sunday that developers left without a candidate in the 2013 mayoral race after the demise of Rep Anthony Weiner might support Public Advocate Bill de Blasio.

Republican mayoral candidate Paul Massey held a press conference today to outline the broad parameters of several transportation proposals, without providing any details, cost estimates or funding sources.

As for whether mayoral control would be renewed as is, without changes, he said: «No, I don't see that happening.

Then on Sunday, he pledged not to grant a long - term extension of mayoral control «without first ensuring that all students have opportunities,» the punctuating sentence of a statement in support of charter schools and against New York City Mayor Bill de Blasio's charter policies.

And even as Assembly and Senate leaders have raised the possibility of leaving town on Wednesday without extending the mayoral control law, there's still a possibility the two houses will agree to yet another one - year extension without tying it to another issue, sources say.

Heastie said it was still possible that the Assembly would adjourn without addressing the outstanding issues — members spoke Tuesday dreamily of leaving by 3 p.m. — and pointed to a one - house bill that extended mayoral control as well as tax extenders for 53 counties worth a collective $ 1.8 billion.

ALBANY — After they walked away last week without taking action on mayoral control of New York City schools or renewing local tax authorizations, state lawmakers will convene Wednesday — at Gov. Andrew Cuomo's command — for a special session.

Without action by the end of the month, mayoral control would lapse.

If lawmakers were to leave Albany without renewing mayoral control, it would revert back to the old system governance, which many considered a failure.

The pair met Smith at a hotel in White Plains in November 2012, where they discussed his mayoral aspirations, which couldn't move forward without the support of Republican county chairmen.

NEW YORK (CBSNewYork)-- Without naming names, New York City mayoral front - runner Christine Quinn took a broad swipe at her opponents during a speech in Harlem Monday afternoon.

Flanagan, in a statement issued Sunday, said that he won't support a «long - term» extension of mayoral control without provisions to strengthen and expand charter schools.

The state Legislature adjourned for the summer Wednesday night without renewing mayoral control.

The state Legislature last week ended its annual session without extending the mayoral control law.

Lawmakers left the Capitol last week without renewing mayoral control of city schools.

Gov. Cuomo says the state legislature fell down on the job by leaving town without passing an extension of mayoral control for the New York City schools, and he has not ruled out calling them back for a special session.

A shambolic campaign in the Scottish parliamentary election of 2011 (which delivered just 0.35 % of the local vote) and his most recent foray into the 2016 London mayoral election (when he won 1.4 % of the vote) showed that without the right issues and electorate to exploit, his rhetoric could only get him so far.

The Democratic - led Assembly backed Cuomo's proposal earlier this year for an extension of mayoral control of three years, without any changes to the program.

Meanwhile, Bill de Blasio won last year's competitive New York City mayoral primary without sending out a single mass mailing.

We can not allow that to happen, and will not grant a long - term extension of mayoral control without first ensuring that all students have opportunities.»

Whyland also said Heastie would not allow the tax credit to be linked to passage of any other legislation — like, say, mayoral control of the New York City school system, which some are suggesting could be linked to raising the charter school cap, another issue pushed without success by Cuomo during the budget battle.

«I think the compromise would be three years mayoral control and then you have a charter school package because the Senate won't do it without charter schools,» Cuomo said.

Senate Majority Leader John Flanagan in a statement Sunday said he would not support a «long - term» extension of mayoral control of New York City schools without a provision that also seeks to expand charter school growth in New York.

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.

Confused, it certainly is not unheard - of for candidates to win a general election without a Democratic or Republican line (e.g., the Lindsay mayoral win in 1969).

ALBANY — The State Legislature has adjourned for the year without coming to an agreement on mayoral control of New York City's schools, leaving a looming question mark over the chain of command for the nation's largest public school system and its 1.1 million students.

In a discussion of the Albany political scene, the question is raised: Will Sheehan's latest mayoral stint run without a hitch seeing as the major challengers in Albany's Common Council have been pushed out?

In interviews, de Blasio administration officials and Albany lawmakers agreed that a three - year extension was the easiest way to maintain the current system of mayoral control without significant changes, a win for de Blasio.

De Blasio said Sunday he does not want to tie the charter school and mayoral control issues, and warned again the schools would descend into chaos without an extension.

Mayor Bill de Blasio has suggested that if the Legislature leaves Albany on Wednesday without renewing mayoral control of schools, which is set to lapse on July 1, the city's education system will immediately descend into chaos.