Quinn Booed At Education Forum

Christine Quinn received a smattering of boos while answering a question from UFT president Michael Mulgrew about whether she would appoint someone with educational experience as Schools Chancellor. (Quinn struggles as Mayoral candidates court city's biggest teacher's union * DNAinfo)

Christine Quinn has mayoral control issues for NYC schools

Christine Quinn opposes a teacher union plan to water-down mayoral control

From Capital New York :

City Council Speaker and Democratic mayoral candidate Christine Quinn opposes a plan presented today by the teachers union that would undo mayoral control, a spokesperson for her campaign said this afternoon.

The United Federation of Teachers announced it would like to change the structure of the Panel for Education Policy in order to reduce the number of appointees the mayor makes the board, and to protect those appointees with fixed terms, so they cannot be replaced at will.

Quinn, who leads the other Democrats in the polls by a wide margin, "opposes this proposal," according to her consultant and spokesman Josh Isay.

Will Christine Quinn Fight for ATU 1181 ?

Can the bus drivers and matrons, who are strike, count on New York City Council Speaker Christine Quinn to stand up for ATU 1181 union members ? Or will Speaker Quinn, as usual, kiss up to Mayor Bloomberg, as he tries to bust yet another union ? Let's see what The New York Daily News is reporting : "Fellow mayoral wanna-be City Council Speaker Christine Quinn is straddling the fence."