{"id":456526,"date":"2022-06-02T04:49:29","date_gmt":"2022-06-02T01:49:29","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/en.buradabiliyorum.com\/albanys-mayoral-control-bill-would-sabotage-schools\/"},"modified":"2022-06-02T04:49:29","modified_gmt":"2022-06-02T01:49:29","slug":"albanys-mayoral-control-bill-would-sabotage-schools","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/albanys-mayoral-control-bill-would-sabotage-schools\/","title":{"rendered":"#Albany&#8217;s mayoral-control bill would sabotage schools"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"ez-toc-container\" class=\"ez-toc-v2_0_85 counter-hierarchy ez-toc-counter ez-toc-custom ez-toc-container-direction\">\n<p class=\"ez-toc-title\" style=\"cursor:inherit\">Table of Contents<\/p>\n<label for=\"ez-toc-cssicon-toggle-item-6a3688b05e971\" class=\"ez-toc-cssicon-toggle-label\"><span class=\"\"><span class=\"eztoc-hide\" style=\"display:none;\">Toggle<\/span><span class=\"ez-toc-icon-toggle-span\"><svg style=\"fill: #dd3333;color:#dd3333\" xmlns=\"http:\/\/www.w3.org\/2000\/svg\" class=\"list-377408\" width=\"20px\" height=\"20px\" viewBox=\"0 0 24 24\" fill=\"none\"><path d=\"M6 6H4v2h2V6zm14 0H8v2h12V6zM4 11h2v2H4v-2zm16 0H8v2h12v-2zM4 16h2v2H4v-2zm16 0H8v2h12v-2z\" fill=\"currentColor\"><\/path><\/svg><svg style=\"fill: #dd3333;color:#dd3333\" class=\"arrow-unsorted-368013\" xmlns=\"http:\/\/www.w3.org\/2000\/svg\" width=\"10px\" height=\"10px\" viewBox=\"0 0 24 24\" version=\"1.2\" baseProfile=\"tiny\"><path d=\"M18.2 9.3l-6.2-6.3-6.2 6.3c-.2.2-.3.4-.3.7s.1.5.3.7c.2.2.4.3.7.3h11c.3 0 .5-.1.7-.3.2-.2.3-.5.3-.7s-.1-.5-.3-.7zM5.8 14.7l6.2 6.3 6.2-6.3c.2-.2.3-.5.3-.7s-.1-.5-.3-.7c-.2-.2-.4-.3-.7-.3h-11c-.3 0-.5.1-.7.3-.2.2-.3.5-.3.7s.1.5.3.7z\"\/><\/svg><\/span><\/span><\/label><input type=\"checkbox\"  id=\"ez-toc-cssicon-toggle-item-6a3688b05e971\" checked aria-label=\"Toggle\" \/><nav><ul class='ez-toc-list ez-toc-list-level-1 ' ><li class='ez-toc-page-1 ez-toc-heading-level-1'><a class=\"ez-toc-link ez-toc-heading-1\" href=\"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/albanys-mayoral-control-bill-would-sabotage-schools\/#%E2%80%9CAlbanys_mayoral-control_bill_would_sabotage_schools%E2%80%9D\" >&#8220;Albany&#8217;s mayoral-control bill would sabotage schools&#8221;<\/a><\/li><\/ul><\/nav><\/div>\n<h1><span class=\"ez-toc-section\" id=\"%E2%80%9CAlbanys_mayoral-control_bill_would_sabotage_schools%E2%80%9D\"><\/span>&#8220;Albany&#8217;s mayoral-control bill would sabotage schools&#8221;<span class=\"ez-toc-section-end\"><\/span><\/h1>\n<div>\n<aside class=\"single__inline-module alignleft\">\n<\/aside>\n<p>The state Legislature has chosen to gut mayoral control of New York City\u2019s public-school system, modifying, for dubious reasons, what has been an effective system.<\/p>\n<p>Enacted in 2002, mayoral control has led to documented improvement in city schools. Achievement on state tests improved in the city from 2002 through 2019, the last pre-COVID year of testing, pushing the city\u2019s levels above the state average for the first time in memory.<\/p>\n<p>The city\u2019s high-school graduation rate, which had been stuck at 50% since the early 1980s, rose dramatically during the Michael Bloomberg years and kept rising under Bill de Blasio, reaching 77% by 2019. (Some question those numbers, but they are controlled by the New York State Board of Regents, which is <a href=\"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/category\/download-scripts-themes-apps\/\" data-internallinksmanager029f6b8e52c=\"9\" title=\"Download Scripts &amp; Themes &amp; Apps\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">app<\/a>ointed by the Legislature. If something is wrong with the metrics, it is the Legislature\u2019s responsibility.)<\/p>\n<p>For the first 12 years of mayoral control, Mayor Bloomberg and his schools chancellors, Joel Klein and Dennis Walcott, engineered a complete overhaul of the city\u2019s public high schools. They streamlined the central bureaucracy, largely eliminated the power of the many corrupt local school boards and ushered in a well-functioning system based on local control, innovation and accountability. Those changes would have been impossible under the old Board of Education, where powerful interest groups controlled the purse, and parents and students had no voice.<\/p>\n<p>Bloomberg\u2019s team took the extraordinary step of closing many schools for low performance, replacing them with both teacher\/community-designed district schools and public charter schools. His initiatives were sometimes harsh and may have alienated the teachers union, as they displaced many senior teachers, but they brought improvement.<\/p>\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"1024\" height=\"682\" src=\"https:\/\/nypost.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2022\/06\/albany-schools-697.jpg?w=1024\" alt=\"Former NYC mayor Mike Bloomberg visits the Harlem Children's Zone Promise\" class=\"wp-image-22500019\" srcset=\"https:\/\/nypost.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2022\/06\/albany-schools-697.jpg?quality=75&amp;strip=all&amp;w=1535 1536w, https:\/\/nypost.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2022\/06\/albany-schools-697.jpg?quality=75&amp;strip=all 1024w, https:\/\/nypost.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2022\/06\/albany-schools-697.jpg?quality=75&amp;strip=all&amp;w=512 512w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1024px) 100vw, 1024px\"\/><figcaption>New York City\u2019s  high-school graduation rate increased during the Michael Bloomberg reign.<\/figcaption><figcaption><span class=\"credit\">Matthew McDermott<\/span><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>Mayor de Blasio shut down many of his predecessor\u2019s initiatives, but the schools created under Bloomberg lived on. City schools maintained their steady improvement under de Blasio\u2019s first chancellor, Carmen Fari\u00f1a. It was only in his second term (and after Fari\u00f1a\u2019s departure) that de Blasio implemented his worst ideas: attacking the city\u2019s selective high schools and gifted programs and alienating the system\u2019s large and growing Asian constituency.<\/p>\n<p>Mayor Eric Adams inherited a school system that had largely stopped functioning under COVID restrictions and was experiencing declining enrollments. Families were voting with their feet, as Chancellor David Banks has noted.<\/p>\n<p>Adams also inherited lots of angry parents, some directing their ire at de Blasio and others still resentful from the Bloomberg years. (Some in the city were happy with de Blasio\u2019s efforts, which in the area of gifted-and-talented education were abetted by locally appointed parent members of some community education councils.)<\/p>\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" width=\"1024\" height=\"682\" src=\"https:\/\/nypost.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2022\/06\/albany-schools-701.jpg?w=1024\" alt=\"Bill de Blasio\" class=\"wp-image-22500023\" srcset=\"https:\/\/nypost.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2022\/06\/albany-schools-701.jpg?quality=75&amp;strip=all&amp;w=1535 1536w, https:\/\/nypost.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2022\/06\/albany-schools-701.jpg?quality=75&amp;strip=all 1024w, https:\/\/nypost.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2022\/06\/albany-schools-701.jpg?quality=75&amp;strip=all&amp;w=512 512w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1024px) 100vw, 1024px\"\/><figcaption>Former Mayor Bill de Blasio received mixed responses on how he handled the city schooling. <\/figcaption><figcaption><span class=\"credit\">ZUMAPRESS.com\/ Luiz Rampelotto<\/span><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>De Blasio\u2019s supporters could not have been happy with the Adams team\u2019s suggestion that it would retreat from some of de Blasio\u2019s efforts and perhaps re-embrace some of Bloomberg\u2019s.<\/p>\n<p>In this context, the Legislature\u2019s decision to reduce mayoral control smacks of cynicism. Faced with some constituents wary of mayoral control, lawmakers have created a mishmash that will bring only paralysis to a system that badly needs strong leadership. Adams and Banks will have to deal with a 23-member Panel for Educational Policy, even as they keep their eyes on the Legislature itself, from which they will need to secure an extension of mayoral control in two years.<\/p>\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" width=\"1024\" height=\"682\" src=\"https:\/\/nypost.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2022\/06\/albany-schools-699.jpg?w=1024\" alt=\"School Chancellor David C Banks\" class=\"wp-image-22500021\" srcset=\"https:\/\/nypost.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2022\/06\/albany-schools-699.jpg?quality=75&amp;strip=all&amp;w=1535 1536w, https:\/\/nypost.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2022\/06\/albany-schools-699.jpg?quality=75&amp;strip=all 1024w, https:\/\/nypost.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2022\/06\/albany-schools-699.jpg?quality=75&amp;strip=all&amp;w=512 512w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1024px) 100vw, 1024px\"\/><figcaption>School Chancellor David C Banks recently announced new curriculum centering on Asian American and Pacific Islander (AAPI) students. <\/figcaption><figcaption><span class=\"credit\">Matthew McDermott<\/span><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>Moreover, the Legislature is placing an elected official, city Comptroller Brad Lander, on the panel as a nonvoting member. Lander has a large staff and may well have the inclination to organize opposition to the mayor\u2019s initiatives. Yet Adams was elected by the people to control the school system; Lander wasn\u2019t.<\/p>\n<p>Few will be happy with the Legislature\u2019s changes. Parents concerned with high achievement and accelerated learning may have been excited by the Adams plan to increase access to gifted-and-talented programs, but Lander has already spoken out against the expansion of those programs.<\/p>\n<p>Last year, the PEP voted down the contract for tests used to place children in gifted programs; the newly empowered panel will revisit it. Meantime, parents with opposing views will find that control by committee tends to be less responsive than direct control by a single entity. One can never be quite sure whose interests a 23-member body is protecting.<\/p>\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" width=\"1024\" height=\"682\" src=\"https:\/\/nypost.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2022\/06\/albany-schools-700.jpg?w=1024\" alt=\"Exterior view of the New York state Capitol where members of New York state's Electoral College\" class=\"wp-image-22500022\" srcset=\"https:\/\/nypost.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2022\/06\/albany-schools-700.jpg?quality=75&amp;strip=all&amp;w=1535 1536w, https:\/\/nypost.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2022\/06\/albany-schools-700.jpg?quality=75&amp;strip=all 1024w, https:\/\/nypost.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2022\/06\/albany-schools-700.jpg?quality=75&amp;strip=all&amp;w=512 512w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1024px) 100vw, 1024px\"\/><figcaption>The mayoral control has led to documented improvement in city schools. <\/figcaption><figcaption><span class=\"credit\">POOL\/AFP via Getty Images\/ Hans Pennink<\/span><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>Finally, the Legislature mandates lower class sizes over the next five years. If this policy is enforced, it will prove incredibly expensive and needlessly hamstring school administration when flexibility is crucial. But five years is a long time, and the wording appears to contain loopholes that will give the administration some leeway to work around the mandate \u2014 though it will have to spend time and energy fighting these battles at a time when the needs of the city\u2019s schoolchildren are great.<\/p>\n<p><em>Ray Domanico\u00a0is the director of education policy at the\u00a0Manhattan Institute.<\/em><\/p>\n<p><em>Adapted from City Journal.<\/em>\n                        <\/div>\n<blockquote><p><strong><span style=\"color: #ff6600;\">If you liked the article, do not forget to share it with your friends. 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