Bloomberg: If I Had It My Way I’d Dump Half Of NYC’s Teachers
Mayor Stuns Many At MIT Speech, Says He'd Greatly Enlarge Class Size, Too
December 1, 2011 10:01 PM
Mayor Michael Bloomberg (credit: Slaven Vlasic/Getty Images)
NEW YORK (CBSNewYork) — It’s a jaw-dropping prescription for fixing city schools.
“Professor” Michael Bloomberg said Thursday he would accomplish more with less by slashing the teaching staff in half — and that’s just the beginning, reports CBS 2’s Marcia Kramer.
He looked like he was from another planet when he dressed as a hippie for a political show, but the mayor’s blueprint for fixing city schools have some asking “what was he smoking?”
“If I had the ability to just design the system and say ex cathedra this is what we’re going to do you would cut the number of teachers in half and weed out all the bad ones,” Bloomberg said.
That’s right. The mayor told people at a Massachusetts Institute of