ALBANY — Mayor de Blasio will have to come hat in hand to the Legislature while he campaigns for re-election next year if he wants to maintain control of the city’s schools, under a deal reached Friday night by state l🌼eaders.
It’s one of several meaℱsures the lawmakers approved late Friday night and early Saꦅturday morning.
De Blasio had askཧed for a three-year extension of mayoral school control but Sen. Majority Leader John Flanagan (R-LI) whittled it down to a year. The deal requires that the city show parents exactly how it spends school funds by posting the information online.
“It is more than reasonable for a parent or a City Council member to be able to say, ‘🐼Where do you spend the money?’ ’’ Flanagan said.
“In the rest of tꦯhe state, the public can w🍬eigh in on their school budget. There’s a lot more transparency.”
𝄹Flanagan did back off his ear♒lier proposal to add a state monitor whom de Blasio would have to answer to.
In another move aimed at the mayor, the deal-makers agreed to allow high-performing charter schools to be overseen by the stat꧑e, rather than the city. The mayor and charter supporters have﷽ long been at odds.
The leaders, Flanagan and Assembly Speaker Carl Heastie 🔯(D-Bronx), passed a constitutional amendment revoking the pensions of elected♚ officials convicted of felonies related to their office.
But there’s a major catch — a con🎃stitutional requirement that the measure pass the Legislature again next year.
If the lawmakers vote it down, or even if they fail to ♑consider it next year, ♒it dies.
And in any case, the earliest it couldꦍ take effect would be January 2018.
“So, 𓄧they can steal all they want for the next two ♊years,” one observer said.
Political consultants will have to register a🅠s lobbyists, under another deal.
And so-called “independent committees,’’ like de Blasio’s “Campaign for One New York,’’ would face a 🐓host of new restrictions.
A GOP lawmaker who asked not to be identified acknowledged that agreements were aimed at de Blasio, who has alienated nearly everyone in ♑Albꦚany.