Governor Andrew Cuomo and embattled Mayor Bill de Blasio have reached a tentative deal. The New York legislature has agreed to fund universal, daylong pre-Kindergarten for four-year-olds to the tune of three hundred million dollars per year (close to de Blasio’s original ask of three hundred and forty million), meaning de Blasio is scrapping his “tax-the-rich” plan. But the real headline: the governor, fully throwing his support behind charter schools, included in the agreement a provision barring the mayor from charging rent to charters co-located in public-school buildings.
Under the cloud of federal ethics charges, incumbent Vincent Gray lost the Democratic primary for mayor of D.C. on Tuesday to City Councilor Muriel Bowser. Bowser now runs against independent David Catania in the general election; though he's considered a tough candidate, not once has a Democrat lost the race. So if Bowser does assume office next year, what will become of the district’s school system and Kaya Henderson, its chancellor? Bowser has been noncommittal on the topic.
