Now NO ONE truly really runs New York City’s public school system
NY Post
The Legislature’s latest fiddles to the mayoral-control law leaves Mayor Adams’ power over the city Department of Education hanging by a thread — and that was the intention.
Combined with similar changes the same lawmakers made two years ago, it makes it certain that decisions by Adams’ schools chancellor, David Banks, will regularly be blocked by the Panel for Education Policy, which must approve many key moves.
CUNY Graduate Center Prof. David Bloomfield described the plan as a “putrid kettle of fish cooked up by the Legislature.”
Back in 2022, lawmakers insisted on limiting Adams to choosing just 13 of the PEP’s 23 members, and removing his power to replace his nominees at will.
This year, they brought it down to 13 of 24, just over half — by adding a new independent voting member who will chair the panel.
The mayor gets to choose that chairman or -woman, but only from candidates nominated by the state Senate, Assembly and Board of Regents (whose members are themselves chosen by the Legislature, and in effect by the Assembly speaker).
