New York City Local Board Elections Postponed
The New York state legislature has voted to postpone community school board elections in New York City, marking the latest development in a growing debate over how best to run the nation's largest school system.
State and local leaders have long talked about ways to reorganize the governance of the 1.1 million-student district, but the one-year delay of the May 7 elections for 32 local school boards is one of lawmakers' most significant steps on the issue in the past several years. The move also comes at a time when the city's new mayor, Michael R. Bloomberg, is lobbying for greater power over the city's schools.
Assemblyman Steven Sanders, the Democratic chairman of the education committee in the Assembly, New York's lower legislative chamber, said that postponing the elections would give lawmakers time to look at revamping the school board voting system and having a broader conversation about change at the...
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