By Kenneth Lovett
ALBANY — With just three scheduled days left in the legislative session and the fate of mayoral control over the city school system hanging in the balance, insiders are amazed at how little behind-the-scenes negotiations there’s been.
“I’ve never seen it like this,” said one prominent legislative source
of the end-of-session run up. “At the top staff level or with the
leaders, it's been extremely quiet. There’s been conversations, but
really nothing meaningful in a way where we’re driving down on
something.”
One problem is neither the Senate nor the Assembly has any top
priorities that the other side can use as leverage, legislative sources
say. As important an issue that mayoral control is for Mayor de Blasio,
it doesn’t carry the same weight for the Assembly Democrats. So they are
willing to let it expire rather than agree to the Senate GOP demands
for pro-charter school provisions in exchange for renewing the law.
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Source: The New York Daily News (via The Empire Report)
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