Mayor deBlasio, New York City’s new Democratic mayor, is hailed by the left as a champion of working-class and poor New Yorkers, who were sidelined by the mostly apolitical Bloomberg, who was more concerned about Big Gulp sodas and than housing and community rights. Others fear that deBlasio is a return towards 70’s New York with its slimy politics, dangerous streets, and decaying schools. The hashtag #deBlasioNewYork turns up pictures of graffiti covered subway cars and old stories about corrupt local politicians. I suspect that the reality will be somewhere in the middle.
Now that we seem to be past the crisis of snowstorm season, deBlasio has stepped squarely into education politics wars. His biggest supporters, the teachers unions and minority parents, have vastly different interests over charter schools and poorly performing public schools located in the very districts that elected him.
It’s going to be a good fight, and I’m ready for it.
Apt. 11d 
Meanwhile, Cuomo is functioning totally as the Underminer. I always though of Cuomo as a total lightweight living off daddy’s name (there’s a lot of that in today’s politics), but I’m beginning to like the guy.
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Cuomo’s budget jams charters down deB’s throat. It’s rare that you see total humiliation like this. Like y81, I’m getting fond of Cuomo. http://www.the-american-interest.com/blog/2014/04/01/cuomo-1-de-blasio-0/
ALL cities must provide rent free space to charters. It’s almost like Cuomo actually cares what will happen for the kids!
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