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Principal Julie Zuckerman joined school leaders who urged mayor-elect Bill de Blasio to keep school-support networks in place.
AFTER THE Bloomberg administration repeatedly shifted the Department of Education deck chairs, 120 principals have signed a public letter calling on Mayor-elect Bill de Blasio not to completely upend the bureaucracy again.
They’re asking the new mayor to keep the current structure in place — at least for schools that are happy with the help they’re getting.
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New York City mayor-elect Bill de Blasio speaking in San Juan, Puerto Rico. ( Marcus Santos / New York Daily News)
Over the last decade, the city closed the local district offices in favor of broader regional control, but later scrapped that plan in favor of so-called networks that are not geographically based but instead often have similar schools or similarly minded principals.
“We are deeply committed to our networks and do not want ours to be dismantled because some are not working well for others,” the letter from Elizabeth Phillips of Brooklyn’s Public School 321 and Julie Zuckerman of Manhattan’s Castle Bridge School states.
De Blasio criticized the current bureaucratic structure during the campaign, but transition press officials did not respond to a request for comment Friday.
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