Mayor-elect Bill de Blasio's Education Promises
Bill de Blasio Education Promises
On June 14, 2013, at a candidate forum held at Murray Bergtraum High School, Bill de Blasio pledged to follow through on the following education policies if elected mayor, and signed a document containing these promises. (These are marked as Forum below.) In response to a survey sent to all the mayoral candidates by NYC Kids PAC, de Blasio made other promises. (These are marked as Survey below.)
We have also included below certain key pledges from press releases from his campaign and a quote from one of the first mayoral debates.
If you know of other important education promises de Blasio made during his campaign, please add them below, along with citations. Thanks!
Governance
· Institute a public screening process in choosing the Chancellor (GothamSchools on Nov. 20, 2012 Debate)
· Only select a chancellor who does not require a waiver. (Survey)
· Support a change in the law so that members of the Board of Education (currently called the Panel for Educational Policy) have set terms and cannot be fired at will by the mayor. (Survey)
· Ensure that all Board of Education members are given at least two weeks to discuss the policy ideas at hand before bringing them to a vote. (Survey)
· Raise the level of significance of the Community Education Councils. (Survey)
· Allow CEC’s to vote on major school utilization changes in their