If Mayor de Blasio learned anything from his springtime failures, it doesn’t show. And children, parents, and school workers will pay the price. onesarahjones writes
The mayor is running out of friends. Photo: John Lamparski/Getty Images Several months before the start of the school year, Mayor Bill de Blasio came up with a plan to get schools open again — or, more specifically, an alternative to a plan. At a May meeting, he “pitched an idea of a contest for coming up with the best reopening plan,” The Wall Street Journal reported on Sunday. But schools needed a plan by early June, sources told the Journal, and the mayor was already behind schedule.
A vote of no confidence is not the same thing as a strike authorization vote. The president of the Council of School Supervisors and Administrators, Mark Cannizzaro, told the New York Times that a strike wasn’t even on the table. They’re asking instead for a state takeover of the city’s public schools, which would wrest control of the system from the mayor’s office.
The UFT defended its deal with the city in a statement to the Times, though some factions of its rank-and-file members are dissatisfied with the union’s approach. A Twitter account for the union’s MORE caucus, a social-justice-focused group that is highly critical of UFT president Michael Mulgrew’s Unity caucus, expressed guarded support for the principals’ no-confidence vote.
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