tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-33431390.post5363207609661610587..comments2024-03-26T11:07:03.496-04:00Comments on Ed Notes Online: Letitia James Calls for Reforms of Mayoral Controled notes onlinehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15018047869059226777noreply@blogger.comBlogger3125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-33431390.post-37338138352541741202015-05-27T11:03:07.963-04:002015-05-27T11:03:07.963-04:00Harry,
There were lots of reasons for poor turnout...Harry,<br />There were lots of reasons for poor turnouts - the election was in May. And the election was very complicated -- not a straight ballot - and of course the machines were involved - UFT and local -- my call for micro-control is designed to make those machines ineffective - chop the territory down so it isn't worth it. There will be corruption, etc -- but the DOE should just do oversight - even if we hired a regulator/watch dog for every school that would be cheap.ed notes onlinehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/15018047869059226777noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-33431390.post-20078104123277922162015-05-27T10:09:00.835-04:002015-05-27T10:09:00.835-04:00This really is "let's destroy mayoral con...This really is "let's destroy mayoral control in order to save it"--where's that colonel from Vietnam when we really need him. <br /><br />I can see why Trish wants all this, as do most of us, but it's a bit late in the game to throw this onto the fires already burning in Albany--and the Senate Republicans will use it to wrap fish with. <br /><br />Excellent points but I really wish the politicians who support OUR side of protecting public education would be smarter about how they try to effect real change than to dump a fine report like this into the process when the Legislature adjourns in less than three weeks and will be "dead on arrival." <br /><br />Great press for Trish, though, I hope.<br /><br />Norm, as to your call for a return to local control, even local micro-control, I do worry about the turnouts in those elections which rarely were above 5% and where, even when there was no overt corruption, the districts were subject to very serious and deadly manipulation by local elected officials and the UFT-UNITY. James Eterno says it's "all about the turnout" but it's hard enough to get voters ID'd and turned-out for a presidential election much less for a school board election and who will be doing the "turning out?" The elected officials and the UFT-UNITY.<br /><br />I love my teacher friends but not many really understand the process behind "political" change and community organizing. Certainly, they don't really understand what is involved in elections and getting "our candidates" through the petitioning process, onto the ballot and elected. Just something to think about.Harris L.noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-33431390.post-4353116961249137132015-05-26T19:31:59.582-04:002015-05-26T19:31:59.582-04:00Great news as the race for mayor has officially be...Great news as the race for mayor has officially begun. I must conclude that this is the opening salvo against DeBlasio/Farina and surely invokes the failure of DeBlasio to keep his election promises regarding education. Anonymousnoreply@blogger.com