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GOP State Senators Take the Air Out Of Mayor’s ‘Football’

By DAN ROSENBLUM
Posted 6/1/15

Mayor de Blasio encountered Republican resistance in the State Senate when he went to Albany May 27 to sell a three-year extension of mayoral control of the school system—a residue of his campaign last fall to help Democrats gain control of that body.

Shortly afterward, State Senate Majority Leader John Flanagan introduced a bill that would extend it for only one year and link it to an increase in the number of allowable charter schools by 100 to 560.

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