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Redefining School Control

Posted 11/27/20

It is telling that, after 20 years in which his union had fractious relationships with the city's two previous Mayors, United Federation of Teachers President Michael Mulgrew sought early on to build a strong one with Mayor de Blasio but is now talking about reworking mayoral control of schools.

The breaking point clearly has been the Mayor's mishandling of the school system since the coronavirus began wreaking havoc on life in the city. Mr. de Blasio was a week slow in shutting down the system in March, and grudgingly did so in no small measure because he was facing a rebellion from Teachers alarmed by both the growing number of illnesses and the foolish decision by the Department of Education to stop providing information about those who were coming down with them in individual schools.

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