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It’s Friday, just show a video: Recent history of school governance


If you missed last Friday’s Spotlight on Mayoral Control: Lessons From Recent History, you can still catch it on video. Above is part 1, and Google has the rest. Speakers included Councilmember Robert Jackson; Steven Sanders, former Chair of the NY State Assembly Education Committee; Esmerelda Simmons, Director of the Center for Law and Justice at Medgar Evers College; and Parent leader Dorothy Giglio.

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  1. [...] one by each borough president and two by the mayor. Esmerelda Simmons, a Dinkens appointee paints a bleak picture of a board  riven by petty politics.   Bloomberg’s seizure of the control of schools can [...]

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