N.Y.C. Mayor’s Makeover of City Schools to Continue
Mayor Michael R. Bloomberg of New York won a chance to expand his makeover of the city’s schools last week, as voters overwhelmingly chose to keep him in office for a second term. In Detroit, schools moved from appointed to elected leadership. And the Los Angeles Unified School District won approval to raise billions of dollars to ease crowded classrooms.
Those results highlighted the many education-related contests decided by local voters around the country Nov. 8.
School board elections in Atlanta and Seattle held the potential of significant shifts in the composition of those panels, but big changes...
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