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Bloomberg: Schools Can’t Be ‘Patronage Mills’ Or ‘Run For The Benefit Of The People Who Work In Them’
Wonk Room —
The Obama administration, guided by Education Secretary Arne Duncan, has come out in favor of mayoral control of urban education. This centralizes education policy for a city in the mayor’s office, instead of leaving it to the city’s school board, city council, and superintendent, who often can’t agree on a single policy direction.
“At the end of my tenure, if only seven mayors are in control, I think I will have failed,” Duncan said last week. “And given the fact so few cities have mayoral control, that’s a huge impediment that hasn’t been talked about enough.”
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Mayoral Control of Schools
Matthew Yglesias —
Pat Garofalo writes about the case for mayoral control of school systems. The basic idea here is that administration of a city’s schools should, like administration of a city’s police, be the responsibility of the city’s mayor. Obviously, that’s still working within the framework of state and federal law and subject to legislation enacted by a city council and so forth. But the point is that you won’t have a special additional elected body specifically dedicated to the schools.
New York City Mayor Michael Bloomberg talks about this in a hot new interview with the Wonk Room: ...
