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you be the mayor

Turning the city’s budget disaster into fun and games

Gotham Gazette — a fine web publication with which we share no connection — offers this cool game, in which readers get to play against Mayor Bloomberg in trying to balance the city’s budget. You don’t have to cut $1 billion of services or raise the sales tax. You can add other revenue-producing proposals or cut even more services.

Major hint: There is no way (that I can see) to scroll up education funding to the highest possible level.

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  • Allon: We have way too many people at Tweed and way too many administrators in schools. I would cut. Maybe they could go back to classroom. 14 hrs ago
  • Mayoral control? Allon would keep it, but ask for fewer votes on PEP, where all but 5 votes are mayoral appointees, to be "less autocratic." 14 hrs ago
  • In response to Bx parent who asks if Allon would stand up to state "testing machine:" I would put a moratorium on testing, K through fifth. 15 hrs ago
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