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In the 2009 races, every candidate has an education platform, but few have answered the big questions — like what they think of tenure, Joel Klein, and the accountability system that Mayor Bloomberg built.

But thanks to surveys GothamSchools sent to candidates in the three citywide races — for mayor, public advocate, and comptroller — and in competitive City Council races, some of those answers are surfacing.

Links to the responses we’ve so far received are below. We’ll be updating this page as we get more questionnaires back. Let the candidates you’re interested in know that you want to see their surveys on GothamSchools — surveys can be sent to our tips box.

Mayor
Tony Avella
Michael Bloomberg
William Thompson

Comptroller
John Liu
Melinda Katz
Joe Mendola
David Yassky

Public Advocate
Bill de Blasio
Eric Gioia
Mark Green
Norman Siegel
Alex Zablocki

City Council
Manhattan
District 1: Margaret Chin
Arthur Gregory
PJ Kim

District 8: Gwen Goodwin

Bronx
District 11: Oliver Koppell
Anthony Cassino

District 12: Jerome Rice
Larry Seabrook

Queens

District 25: Daniel Dromm
Stanley Kalathara
Helen Sears

District 29: Karen Koslowitz

Brooklyn

District 33:
Isaac Abraham
Ken Baer
Doug Biviano
Kenneth Diamondstone
Stephen Levin
Jo Anne Simon
Evan Thies

District 35: Letitia James
Delia Hunley-Adossa