Mayoral control brought major changes to New York City's schools. Mayor Michael R. Bloomberg and his schools chancellors, for instance, made unilateral decisions on issues that faced difficult political headwinds, including shutting down dozens of schools and opening hundreds of new ones, and cultivating the growth of charter schools, which now educate 15 percent of students.
In New York last year, hundreds of parents and teachers were galvanized by education cuts and lingering anger over past school closures. They have railed against the system this winter, calling for more checks on the mayor, or for an entirely new model.
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