New York City Mayor Eric Adams today released the following statement on mayoral accountability potentially being left out of the state budget:
“Given its vital importance to the nearly one million students in our education system and the fact that parents right now do not know who will be responsible for their schools in mere months, it would be disappointing for mayoral accountability to be omitted from the budget. We have a long way to go before a final budget is approved and our broad coalition will continue to wage this fight on behalf of our city’s children. The bottom line is that we should be proactively supporting our children by giving them the certainty they need as soon as possible — particularly after the trauma they’ve experienced over the past two years.”
EDITOR'S NOTE:
Mayoral Control has been a huge failure since its inception under the Bloomberg administration. Former Mayor Bloomberg tried to rewrite the education law, and former Mayor Bill de Blasio didn't have a clue when it came to running the public school system, and this is being born out of the question of Mayoral Accountability.
The state legislature should give no more than a one year extension of Mayoral Control, while looking to return the control of the public schools to the district level where the Decentralization Law placed it. Albany should in conjunction with the Mayor, Chancellor's Parent Advisory Council and other local community organizations come up with a local district based School Board for each of New York City's local school districts.
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