Leonie Haimson created a list of the promises that Mayor-Elect Bill de Blasio made about education while campaigning. She draws upon various public statements, including his answers to a survey sent to all candidates.
Here is another source. This was the forum held by Parent Voices NY at PS 29 in Brooklyn. Mr. De Blasio pledged to eliminate the A-F grading system borrowed fro Jeb Bush. The subject of the forum was education, and all the Democratic candidates except Chris Quinn participated.
Diane Ravitch's blog 
Good – let’s pay close attention to how many he actively pursues (and how many he reverses course on) before we throw any support behind him moving on to bigger things.
Don’t want to rain on the parade, but De Blasio will turn out to be another Obama . . . .
He is not genuine, and he has never said anything about removing scores as a factor in teacher employability.
Except he has kids in public schools.
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