Invoking King, Cuomo and Bloomberg Stoke Fight on Teacher Review Impasse
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.
By THOMAS KAPLAN and KATE TAYLOR
Published: January 16, 2012
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.