NY legislators to vote on two-year extension of mayoral control over NYC schools

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New York state legislators are set to vote this Thursday on a plan to extend mayoral control over city schools for a shorter timeframe than Mayor Adams requested, and with some tweaks to an oversight panel that monitors the Education Department.
A bill introduced Tuesday in the state Assembly and Senate would extend mayoral control over city schools by two years — just half of the four-year time frame that Adams and Gov. Hochul were pushing for.
The legislation would also expand the Panel for Education Policy — the Education Department’s oversight panel that approves budget and contract proposals — by eight members, four of whom will be appointed by the mayor and the other four by parent leaders.
New York City Mayor Eric Adams (Ted Shaffrey/AP)