New York City’s CSA (Council of Supervisors and Administrators) passed a unanimous vote of no confidence in Mayor de Blasio and Chancellor Carranza for their poor leadership during the public health crisis and asked the state to intervene to help the public schools reopen safely.
CSA represents the city’s public school principals.
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I wrote a long comment on my phone but deleted it, because there really isn’t anything to say. I have never been a De Blasio fan, and I’ve liked Carranza even less, but I’ve never wanted them to succeed more than I’ve wanted them to succeed with reopening schools. I’ve never been more disappointed in them, and that is really saying something. There is no remedy too extreme for my taste. Carranza should be run out of town and should never work again in education. De Blasio should be the cautionary tale for Mayoral control, which should be ended as soon as possible.
FLERP!
I really don’t understand what you think could have been done. Half the parents (including you, I believe) don’t want all-remote. The other half does.
If all Mayor de Blasio cared about was doing the easy thing, he would have simply announced an all-remote opening indefinitely, as was done in LA and other big cities.
Don’t you agree? The principals’ union would have been happy. The teachers’ union would have been happy. The parents who wanted remote only would have been happy.
The only people who wouldn’t be happy, as far as I can see, would be the parents who didn’t want all-remote. This entire “fiasco” is because he tried — and is still trying — to provide some in-school instruction for the families who want it.
There isn’t a school system in the country that has shown that having a hybrid opening is possible. So maybe de Blasio should not have tried. But why blame him for trying and (maybe) failing to do what no one else is even trying to do?
I would have been delighted with an all-remote opening, but shouldn’t the needs of parents who don’t want all-remote count? Or should they have been blown off the way charter schools blew them off?
Until there’s a cure, there IS no safe way to open schools. ☹️
There will never be a cure.
I agree. 😁
The Chancellor Had his short leadership in Houston ISD then left for the NYC position. Seems his leadership was not effective in Houston. Probably his term was too short to tell.
Putting this out here as a reminder.
https://www.newyorker.com/magazine/2020/10/05/the-students-left-behind-by-remote-learning
That’s exactly why de Blasio and Carranza are trying to figure out a hybrid system, so rather than force parents into one way or another, they can choose.
I just heard that Hunter schools teachers are on the verge of striking because they feel the conditions are unsafe! Can’t blame de Blasio and Carranza for that!
I know de Blasio and Carranza make a lot of mistakes, but I also think that in education, he has made no worse mistakes than any other school leader and his agenda is the right one. It isn’t about pleasing the union or the parents or principals or (as some critics claim) Wall St. and corporations!
He is taking a lot of views into consideration – parents, teachers, other school personnel (but rarely Wall Street) — and trying to come up with a reasonable compromise. Which means everyone is unhappy and everyone is mad, but if a politician is brave enough to take the heat, it’s probably the best kind of governing possible in a democracy.
Carranza has shown no leadership.