An emergency meeting of a newly reconstituted "NYC Board of Education" will be held at noon today at NYC education HQ (aka "Tweed courthouse"). The Mayor and the Borough Presidents each have a candidate. It is believed that the Mayor can count on the support of the Manhattan and Staten Island BPs, and possibly Brooklyn as well.
NY TIMES: "Marty Markowitz, the Brooklyn borough president, said he planned to appoint his chief of staff, Carlo A. Scissura. Mr. Stringer and Mr. Markowitz called for an immediate meeting of the reconstituted Board of Education on Wednesday.
Under the old system, 32 neighborhood school boards were responsible for overseeing middle and high schools in their districts and for hiring superintendents. Since Mr. Bloomberg took control in 2002, those boards have been turned into parent councils and stripped of their power. The chancellor now appoints superintendents."
NY Times on what may be to come:
http://www.nytimes.com/2009/07/01/nyregion/01control.html?_r=1
Parents and others who assumed that the toothpaste was out of the tube, and that the Mayor's wealth, political clout, and his army of political and media operatives, made the continuation of Mayoral control a given are surprised, some perhaps jubilant, at the turmoil that the chaos in Albany has wrought. Although "money changes everything", in this case, politics, however dysfunctional, manages to trump wealth, throwing a wrench into the Mayor's own well-oiled political machine.
- Brooklyn Beat
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