UFT President Mulgrew responds to Gov. Cuomo's call for statewide ed reform commission

Declaring that “we need a new blueprint for education,” Gov. Andrew Cuomo in his Jan. 4 State of the State address announced that he will convene a statewide commission to recommend education reforms.

UFT President Michael Mulgrew issued the following statement in response:

A bipartisan state commission on education is a very promising idea. Rather than do what New York City now does, which is to set its educational policy by a political agenda, the commission could look at the research about what really works in schools. The commission could also shine on management inefficiencies, like the fact that the New York City Department of Education promised to use three-quarters of a billion dollars in state money to reduce class size — and then let class sizes go up every year.