“The DOE’s accountability experts are the people who make a living making paperwork for other people,” said UFT President Michael Mulgrew, a comment that drew the laughter of recognition at an April 18 Meet the President event for school secretaries and teachers assigned. The workload — paperwork and other consuming tasks — was one of many concerns among secretaries; among the teachers assigned, the concerns are contractual issues and how a new mayoral administration may affect them. For all who attended, hearing updates of city politics and the very nature of mayoral elections was a springboard for a lively back-and-forth.