POLICY IMPLICATION ON MAYOR BLOOMBERG

Policy Implication on Mayor Bloomberg

Policy Implication on Mayor Bloomberg

It seems that the first task these days for new mayors, especially in big cities, is to attempt to take control of the school system. I guess these mayors look at what their colleagues Richard Daley Richard Daley may refer to:

* Richard J. Daley, Mayor of Chicago (1955-1976), father of Richard M. Daley

* Richard M. Daley, Mayor of Chicago (1989-present), son of Richard J. Daley and Michael Bloomberg Michael Rubens Bloomberg (born 14 February 1942) is an American businessman, and the founder of Bloomberg L.P., currently serving as the Mayor of New York City. He was a general partner at Salomon Brothers before founding the financial software service company in 1981. have done in Chicago and New York New York, state, United States

New York, Middle Atlantic state of the United States. It is bordered by Vermont, Massachusetts, Connecticut, and the Atlantic Ocean (E), New Jersey and Pennsylvania (S), Lakes Erie and Ontario and the Canadian province of and decide they should do the same immediately. In fact, Adrian Fenty Adrian M. Fenty (b. December 7, 1970) is the fifth and current mayor of the District of Columbia, having begun his term of office on January 2, 2007.

Fenty is the youngest person ever to hold the office[1], and, at 35, was the youngest elected , a mayoral candidate in Washington, D.C., was so absorbed with the takeover concept that he traveled to New York for a site visit, met with Mayor Bloomberg and his schools chief, and announced plans to take over the D.C. schools based on the New York model--all before he was even elected to office. Right now, there is a shortage of data on the long-term impact on student achievement of mayoral control of schools. It has been a little more than four years since Mayor Bloomberg took over the New York City New York City: see New York, city. New York City

City (pop., 2000: 8,008,278), southeastern New York, at the mouth of the Hudson River. The largest city in the U.S.

..... Click the link for more information. schools. The success of the takeover is a matter of debate. While the city's fourth-graders made significant improvement on state reading and math tests, other cities throughout the state made even more improvement. Eighth-grade test scores dropped, and many of the city's high schools have become overcrowded ...