Wednesday, June 14, 2017

Head of City Teachers Union Knocks Senate GOP Plan to Expand Charter Schools

 

By Glenn Blain and Kenneth Lovett

ALBANY — The head of the city teachers union dismissed as “a load of crap” state Senate GOP efforts to tie the renewal of a law granting Mayor de Blasio control over the city school system to an expansion of charter schools.

United Federation of Teachers President Michael Mulgrew said the state shouldn’t be stepping on the city’s power to self-govern.

“This is a load of crap,” Mulgrew said during a visit to Albany Tuesday. “I'm not playing this charter versus mayoral control.”

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Source: The New York Daily News (via The Empire Report) 

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