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Cuomo and Bloomberg on Attack on Teacher Evaluations - NYTimes.com

Cuomo and Bloomberg on Attack on Teacher Evaluations - NYTimes.com:

Invoking King, Cuomo and Bloomberg Stoke Fight on Teacher Review Impasse

Michael Appleton for The New York Times

The Rev. Al Sharpton leading a policy forum, with a gun violence emphasis, on Martin Luther King's Birthday on Monday at the National Action Network headquarters in Harlem. Mayor Michael R. Bloomberg spoke there.

Gov. Andrew M. Cuomo and Mayor Michael R. Bloomberg, each irate that a stalemate over teacher evaluations is endangering federal education aid, fixed their sights Monday on a shared opponent: what they derided as New York State’s education bureaucracy.

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Both men said the state could no longer tolerate a public school system they said was failing students, invoked the ideals of the Rev. Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. and appeared ready for a fight.

At separate observances commemorating Dr. King’s birthday, the governor and the mayor ratcheted up their attacks on teachers’ unions and school administrators.