New York’s Students Get Cheated by Politics https://www.bloomberg.com/opinion/articles/2024-04-24/michael-r-bloomberg-ne... Despite the smiles and backslapping that accompanied the completion of New York’s state budget, it includes a truly disgraceful provision that weakens a law crucial to New York City’s future: mayoral control of the school system. Making matters worse, the new law hands more control to the group that has long pulled the state legislature’s strings, the United Federation of Teachers.