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Home Front: Politix

Any more poison pills and mayoral control of NYC schools will be a dead letter

2024-01-09

[NYPOST] Mayoral control of New York City public schools is on the cusp of extinction: If the Legislature weakens it any more this year, the United Federation of Teachers will effectively be calling the shots.

The UFT is already all too close, having used its vast power in Albany to water down the mayor’s power in the Panel for Educational Policy (which officially controls the city Department of Education) two years ago — while also passing an NYC-only “class size” law that basically forces the city to spend an added $2 billion a year on more teachers despite declining enrollment.

The Legislature also only renewed the law for just two years setting it up to further undermine the mayor this year.

And the fix is in: The 2022 renewal also ordered the State Education Department to review mayoral control and recommend changes — and the SED, as we’ve warned for years now, is firmly in the tank for the teachers unions.

If lawmakers fail to act, the city suddenly defaults to the old Board of Education governance rules — guaranteeing both a chaotic transition and de-facto UFT rule.

Thanks to lawmakers like Assembly Speaker Carl Heastie (D-Bronx) and state Sen. John Liu (D-Queens), renewing this law has become a regular means for the Legislature to make NYC mayors come begging — and now an exercise in rewarding the UFT for its campaign donations and political support.

Posted by:Fred

#5 Which is worse: UFT under lefty oversight or UFT under no oversight?

Posted by: Super Hose 2024-01-09 11:44

#4 'All we know is a man called Albert Shanker got hold of a nuclear weapon...'

Posted by: Cesare 2024-01-09 08:41

#3 Sorry B, but its literally a Constitutional mandate.

"The Congress shall have Power...
... To establish Post Offices and Post Roads;" - Article I, Section 8

Now the monopoly on first class handling is a different issue.

Posted by: Procopius2k 2024-01-09 07:12

#2 /\ ....Postal business, oil, agriculture, medicine, banking, etc, etc.

* USPS "Overnight" letter mailed two weeks ago. $27.00, took 4.5 days to arrive. Distance traveled 580 miles. Clerk told me it would take an "extra day." Kept the tracking slip and could have gotten a refund. Got better things to do than stand in a postal line.

Posted by: Besoeker 2024-01-09 06:30

#1 Gummint out of the "school bidness."

Posted by: M. Murcek 2024-01-09 06:24

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