Thank you State Senator John Sampson and I wish more people would grow a pair to stand against Bloomberg.  Unfortunately, Governor Patterson bend over for the mayor who he supposedly referred as a nasty, tantrum-prone liar”. Dicker further states that Paterson says of Bloomberg, that “you can’t trust him”.

Why Mayoral Control Must Lapse and not be Renewed

No Bid Contracts -Millions and millions of our dollars for assessments not align to the student's curriculum, such as Princeton Review, CTB/McGraw etc.  Questionable no bid contracts to groups with close ties to administration such as City Year relationship with ex Deputy Mayor Doctoroff.  Millions and Millions of dollars on no-bid consulting contracts.

School Overcrowding- As Public Advocate Betsy Goldbaum stated "They didn't anticipate the baby boom with all the kids coming into the system? They didn't anticipate with all the construction that;s going on? Hello!"

LearnNY - Geoffrey Canada chairs Learn NY which has massive ads for mayoral control has received almost $388 million in contracts from the city and the Education Department over the past decade, according to records from the comptroller’s office. Two other board members of Learn NY are Reverend Calvin Butts of the Abyssinian Baptist Church, and Sister Paulette LoMonaco of Good Shepherd Services. Their organizations have done almost $400 million worth of combined business with the city over the last decade.

Dubious Unverifiable Success - But how can the mayor and chancellor be held accountable when, essentially, they evaluate themselves? We need a reliable professional group, similar to the Independent Budget Office, with full access to data, to annually evaluate school system performance.

Dictatorship - No one individual should wield absolute power over such a large, diverse school system.  Bloomberg extended term limits without  a public referendum and his ego can't be rein in.  Bloomberg can remove his appointees at any time if they disagree with him, which happened.

Only one in ten English Language learners currently graduate with a Regents diploma in four years, and only one in twenty students with disabilities.  Even worse, less than one in three Black and Latino students currently graduate with a Regents diploma.

Apathy: Bloomberg lacks empathy.  As a concern citizen wrote " You laud yourself on education issues,when the number one lesson we can teach our children is the conservation of our wildlife, not their destruction,as you have done to the geese population here in NYC. You broke our hearts here in Bayside, Queens and betrayed our trust. Our beloved Oakland Lake now lies silent, since our magnificent geese which our families enjoyed and loved, were swept up and gassed in a cruel and horrific manner with OUR tax dollars, when other humane options were available"

For the children's sakes, let Mayoral control expire and it is time for people to dethrone emperor Bloomberg who wears no clothes.