#Albany’s mayoral-control bill would sabotage schools

#Albany’s mayoral-control bill would sabotage schools

“Albany’s mayoral-control bill would sabotage schools” The state Legislature has chosen to gut mayoral control of New York City’s public-school system, modifying, for dubious reasons, what has been an effective system. Enacted in 2002, mayoral control has led to documented improvement in city schools. Achievement on state tests improved in the city from 2002 through…

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#This poison-pill mayoral control bill demands a veto

#This poison-pill mayoral control bill demands a veto

“This poison-pill mayoral control bill demands a veto” Mayor Eric Adams’ so-called “friends” in Albany are doing him, and the city’s schoolchildren, dirty with the Legislature’s proposal to grant him only a two-year renewal of mayoral control of city schools — with poison-pill strings attached. As we feared, this bill badly undermines mayoral control. It…

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#Public order is the government’s job

#Public order is the government’s job

“Public order is the government’s job” Can we agree that though police and the criminal-justice system are imperfect, the alternative to a government monopoly on keeping law and order — armed chaos and disorder — is far worse? Apparently not on the extremes of the right and left that dominate the political debate. The pragmatic…

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#Slow response to shooting like Uvalde wouldn’t happen in NYC

#Slow response to shooting like Uvalde wouldn’t happen in NYC

“Slow response to shooting like Uvalde wouldn’t happen in NYC” Mayor Eric Adams insisted Tuesday that New York City first responders wouldn’t mishandle a school shooting like last week’s massacre in Texas — declaring NYPD officers and medics would “go in with an active shooter” unlike police in Uvalde.  “That is not going to happen in New York. We…

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#Eric Adams, Kathy Hochul commemorate Memorial Day in NYC

#Eric Adams, Kathy Hochul commemorate Memorial Day in NYC

“Eric Adams, Kathy Hochul commemorate Memorial Day in NYC” New York politicians — including Mayor Eric Adams and Gov. Kathy Hochul — joined military officials to commemorate Memorial Day Monday at the Intrepid Sea, Air and Space Museum for the first time since 2019. During the annual ceremony, — which was canceled the last few years…

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