How to Pressure Albany on School Funding
February 26th, 2006
The New York Times has an article this weekend profiling Kevin Sheekey, who it believes is behind several aggressive moves that the Bloomberg administration has made since the mayor was reelected in November.
One of these is pushing Albany lawmakers to come through with the funding that a court has ordered it provide to New York City Schools. The Daily News writes in an editorial today that it approves of this effort, but adds that Bloomberg’s efforts could be more effective if he targeted them more specially:
“The best targets are Senate Republicans. They stand to forfeit majority control if the Democrats take just five seats in November, and their upstate and Long Island members have been the chief obstacle to a more equitable distribution of education money to N.Y.C,” it writes.
By pressuring the city’s representatives in the state senate, says the News, Bloomberg could lay the groundwork for “a grand compromise: The Senate goes along with a big school aid increase for N.Y.C., and in return the Assembly goes along with education tax credits.”
By Joshua Brustein on February 26, 2006, 4:21 pmIn category: Education, Gotham City | No Comments »

