Elizabeth Green, reporter with Gotham School, looks at how the Albany standstill will affect the important decisions around Mayoral Control of NYC's schools.
Defenders of unfettered Mayoral Control have never explained why the Chancellor and Mayor have seen fit to IGNORE the CURRENT law, and are therefore being SUED by at least two CEC's (#2 and #3), covering most of Manhattan.
Advocates of the Partnership Act do NOT want a return to the pre-control days. That is a straw man. NO ONE is pushing for that.
Accountability for steady state or slip is foisted on the Principals. And yet the organizational structure -- and the Mayor personally -- lay claim to any improvement? How is that consistent?
Note that pending 5% budget cuts will be "devastating" (in the words of one principal on GothamSchools), esp to auxilliary programs, as the great majority of any principal's budget is teacher salaries and not under direct control. Will the Mayor take the hit for possible decreased performance?
Note that Capital Plan Mayor and Chancellor tried to steamroll through City Council allows $2.5B for prisons -- that could have gone to Schools AND picked up state matching funds to boot.
Jun. 22 2009 11:27 AM
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mc
from Brooklyn
I hope Sampson sticks to his guns. He is my state senator. I will be watching him closely. PEP needs to be more autonomous.
Jun. 22 2009 11:21 AM
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Jane
from Brooklyn
Does the debate around mayoral control in the NYC public schools have anything to do with the teacher hiring freeze? Will this be lifted when the mayoral control debate is resolved?
Jun. 22 2009 11:20 AM
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rexx
from NYC
All successful school systems in the United States report to democratically elected boards. Many failures in the current system fails can be traced to the failure of having real democracy in NYC schools.
Jun. 22 2009 10:59 AM
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Defenders of unfettered Mayoral Control have never explained why the Chancellor and Mayor have seen fit to IGNORE the CURRENT law, and are therefore being SUED by at least two CEC's (#2 and #3), covering most of Manhattan.
Advocates of the Partnership Act do NOT want a return to the pre-control days. That is a straw man. NO ONE is pushing for that.
Accountability for steady state or slip is foisted on the Principals. And yet the organizational structure -- and the Mayor personally -- lay claim to any improvement? How is that consistent?
Note that pending 5% budget cuts will be "devastating" (in the words of one principal on GothamSchools), esp to auxilliary programs, as the great majority of any principal's budget is teacher salaries and not under direct control.
Will the Mayor take the hit for possible decreased performance?
Note that Capital Plan Mayor and Chancellor tried to steamroll through City Council allows $2.5B for prisons -- that could have gone to Schools AND picked up state matching funds to boot.
I hope Sampson sticks to his guns. He is my state senator. I will be watching him closely. PEP needs to be more autonomous.
Does the debate around mayoral control in the NYC public schools have anything to do with the teacher hiring freeze? Will this be lifted when the mayoral control debate is resolved?
All successful school systems in the United States report to democratically elected boards. Many failures in the current system fails can be traced to the failure of having real democracy in NYC schools.
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