Wednesday, September 7, 2011

Mike Klonsky's SmallTalk Blog: Mayoral control gets an F from New Yorkers

Mike Klonsky's SmallTalk Blog: Mayoral control gets an F from New Yorkers:

Mayoral control gets an F from New Yorkers



Arne Duncan has made mayoral control of urban school districts, an essential piece of his top-down school reform model. Duncan went so far as to say he would consider his time as education secretary a “failure” if more mayors didn’t take over city school systems by the end of his tenure.

But, according to a New York Times poll, New Yorkers are broadly