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6 Hours to go
June 30, 2009
On eve of expiration, Bloomberg’s plans for Board of Ed a mystery
Talks are underway between City Hall and the city’s borough presidents to craft a plan for what to do if mayoral control expires tonight — but it’s not yet clear that Mayor Bloomberg will cooperate with plans to reconvene a Board of Education tomorrow.
Asked if Bloomberg has indicated whether he would appoint the two board members the law allows him, the Manhattan borough president, Scott Stringer, said he didn’t know. “They are having discussions at City Hall,” Stringer said.
One possibility being batted around is for the mayor to go to court to ask for a preliminary injunction, sources said. A preliminary injunction would freeze the process of reverting from the current centralized governance system to the pre-2002 system. It would stymie the creation of a Board of Education.
Asked about the prospect of a legal injunction, Stringer said he opposed it. “If you let the courts run the school system, you’re basically putting the school system into receivership,” he said. “I don’t think that’s something we should deal with.”
In his public appearances, the mayor has not committed to cooperating with the borough presidents in reconstituting the Board of Education. (more…)
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