An Unfortunate Decade of Mayoral Mistakes

(from the New Action leaflet distributed at the February 2013 UFT Delegate Assembly).
For a printable version click: NA/UFT 02/2013 leaflet

Year	New Action Recommends	Did we listen?	Result
2002	No to Mayoral Control	No. First Mayoral Control bill gives Bloomberg unfettered control	Countless Disruptive Reorganizations – managers (not educators) dominate the DoE bureaucracy
2009	No Extension of Term Limits	No, even though we could have stopped Bloomberg by swinging a handful of City Council votes	The worst of Bloomberg’s terms
2009	Let Mayoral Control Sunset	No. We put in “checks and balances” ….	… but those “checks and balances“ did not limit the mayoral dictatorship
2009	No Waiver for Chancellors	No	Cathie Black
2009	Endorse Bill Thompson against Bloomberg	No, we sit out the election	Bloomberg squeaks by for four more years of school closings, abusive administrators, and mountains of paperwork
2013	Remove Christine Quinn from consideration for our endorsement	???	???