Jackie Sato, a teacher at Yung Wing School P.S. 124, wears a mask and teaches remotely from her classroom on Sept. 24 in New York City.
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New York City’s school principals union demanded Sunday that Mayor Bill de Blasio and Chancellor Richard Carranza abdicate control of the system to the state — a brutal rebuke over their handling of COVID-19.
The move by the union, which has 6,400 members, is the latest sign of disarray only two days before the scheduled start of in-classroom learning for K-8 students.
The Council of School Supervisors and Administrators “declared a unanimous vote of ‘no confidence’ in Mayor de Blasio and Chancellor Carranza due to their failure to lead New York City through the safe and successful reopening of schools,” the group wrote in a letter.
“CSA calls on Mayor de Blasio to cede mayoral control of the Department of Education for