The political harmony between Mayor Bill de Blasio and United
Federation of Teachers president Michael Mulgrew has faded in recent
months, with Mulgrew issuing a series of denunciations of City Hall’s
key education agenda items.
Since May, Mulgrew has frequently and openly bucked the mayor and
schools chancellor Carmen Fariña, sometimes sounding more like a member
of the chorus of de Blasio education detractors than the stalwart City
Hall ally he had been early on in de Blasio's term.
On community schools, the cornerstone of the mayor's plan to improve
struggling schools, Mulgrew recently declared that de Blasio and Fariña
“don’t get it.” In a scathing letter,
he lamented what he called the DOE’s “poor track record” on
implementation of big-ticket agenda items and warned the mayor’s
discipline policies could lead to “out of control” schools. And Mulgrew
was notably silent during City Hall’s all-hands-on-deck fight this
spring to win a lengthy extension of mayoral control of the city's
public schools.
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Source: Politico
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