The New York Observer » mayoral control http://www.observer.com Just another WordPress site Wed, 15 Feb 2012 00:32:43 +0000 http://backend.userland.com/rss092 en Governors Island Transfer Official A bit more than two months after the Bloomberg administration and the state agreed to transfer Governors Island to the control of the city, the move is official.

Today the board that oversees the island, which was jointly owned by the state and city, voted to transfer it, a final step, with another coming tomorrow Read More

]]> http://www.observer.com/2010/politics/governors-island-transfer-goes-official Dilan: It Was Just a Draft Malcolm Smith is downplaying a Post story saying that his conference was prepared to gut mayoral control and recommend reconstituting the Board of Education to oversee the city's public schools. Smith's spokesman, Austin Shafran, emailed this statement from Senator Martin Dilan, chairman of the committee that produced the report containing the recommendations: “Recently an internal Read More

]]> http://www.observer.com/2009/politics/dilan-it-was-just-draft Dilan: It Was Just a Draft a Post story saying that his conference was prepared to gut mayoral control and recommend reconstituting the Board of Education to oversee the city's public schools.

Smith's spokesman, Austin Shafran, emailed this statement from Senator Martin Dilan, chairman of the committee that produced the report containing the recommendations:

“Recently an Read More

]]> http://www.observer.com/3279/dilan-just-draft Denny Farrell Says N.Y.C. Schools Need ‘Tension’ At Top ALBANY—Of course Joel Klein can't come to Albany without getting asked about mayoral control, which is up for legislative reauthorization this year.

In a budget hearing this afternoon, Assemblyman Denny Farrell asked the question quite pointedly, saying Klein has done a good job representing the mayor but that he felt "tension" was needed in Read More

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