The future of New York City's technology sector rests squarely on the city's capacity to educate the 1.1 million students in its schools and produce a skilled, diverse workforce. This vital challenge for our education system requires clear lines of accountability, room for bold initiatives, and guardrails that keep bureaucratic turf wars at a distance.
But with just a handful of days remaining in this year's legislative session, lawmakers in Albany are dangerously close to allowing mayoral control of New York City schools—the nonpartisan structure of governance that makes a brighter future for our schools possible—to lapse.
This would be a disruptive shock to New York City's school system, one that could imperil path-breaking initiatives and reprise the corruption and inaction that plagued the board that presided over city schools nearly two decades ago.
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