Timing is Everything
Democratic Conference Leader John Sampson is right that his view and the views of other Senate Democrats ought to be heard in the debate over mayoral control of schools. And of course, the Senate is not required to adhere to the Assembly's version of the bill (which they passed in the dead of night with no bill hearings or public discussion). But Sampson is wrong in his timing.
The
Democrats have done nothing about Mayoral Control since January, when
they actually did have control of the Senate. They were relying on the
same last minute, midnight politics employed by the Speaker of the
Assembly. And here they failed because they lost control of the
chamber. Now Sampson wants to hold
