Capital New York / October 7, 2014
Deputy mayor Richard Buery and United Federation of Teachers president Michael Mulgrew will travel to Cincinnati this week to tour the Ohio city’s famed community schools as New York City hones its own strategy for the program, Capital has learned…
Buery, the former president and C.E.O. of the Children’s Aid Society, which manages community schools in New York, said he’s most interested in seeing how Cincinnati has integrated the community schools into its overall educational system.
“What Cincinnati does, that they have probably done better than any other city, certainly better than New York at this time, is not just to have a collection of great community schools, but to have a system of community schools,” Buery said in an interview Monday evening. “I want to see what it means for a city to build a system of community schools. What did that take in terms of the political will, in terms of how different city agencies and the private sector has to work together.”…