UFT TV ad blasts mayor’s education record

The UFT hit the mayor hard in a new television ad that begins with a serious-voiced narrator looking back at Michael Bloomberg’s educational record:

“Ten years as mayor, and Mike Bloomberg still doesn’t get it.”

Headlines torn from newspapers appear on the screen as the narrator continues: “Cathie Black, fudged education test scores, closing schools, parents shut out of the process.

“And just last month, Bloomberg said in a perfect world he’d cut the number of teachers in half, doubling class size.”

With images of New York City children in classrooms and schoolyards, the ad concludes with this message: “Mayor Bloomberg, let’s be honest. If you really want to do right by our kids, you’ll work with teachers and parents and stop playing politics with our schools.”

The 30-second ad ran for one week, from Jan. 24 to 30, on popular programs on all major network and cable TV stations, and was seen by more than 8 million viewers.

Watch the ad here.