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The Senate session scheduled for, well, right now, has been stalled by both parties, which have retreated to discuss what to do about mayoral control, according to Politicker.

Throughout the week, Democratic lawmakers have offered conflicting clues to the bill’s fate, and their forecasts soured after meeting with two of Mayor Bloomberg’s deputy mayors last night.

Senator John Sampson, the Democratic conference leader, told a Daily News reporter that he has “no idea” what will happen with mayoral control today. Senator Carl Kruger, never one for subtlety, told Politicker that the Assembly’s school governance bill, which preserves the bulk of the 2002 law, is “DOA.”

Senate Democrats have said they would vote for the Assembly’s bill, provided that Bloomberg and Senate Republicans agree to pass one of the chapter amendments proposed by Sens. Shirley Huntley, Bill Perkins, Martin Dilan, and Malcolm Smith. And there’s the rub: the mayor and Republican senators oppose all of the bills. (more…)