Cuomo hedges on mayoral control
Reid Pillifant
Governor Andrew Cuomo told reporters on Friday that the "most serious issues" in the state budget are now taxes and charter schools, shrugging off the campaign by Mayor Bill de Blasio for a tax to fund pre-kindergarten.
And then he advocated, without mentioning de Blasio by name, limitations on mayoral control of public schools.
"Pre-K is what we said pre-K is going to be," said Cuomo, after a speech to the Association for a Better New York in Manhattan, emphasizing that the state would provide funding for a statewide expansion, without the tax on high earners that was first proposed by de Blasio at an ABNY event in 2012.
Instead, Cuomo—who is running for re-election this year—focused on the tax cuts he's proposed in the budget, and his recent promise to protect charter schools, which he called "vitally important" to the state's education system.
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