Mayor Bloomberg Speech Focuses on School Reform

Medford native and New York City Mayor Michael Bloomberg raised some eyebrows with a State of the City speech that proposed significant educational reforms. Mayor Bloomberg pushed controversial topics such as awarding teachers with merit pay, creating more charter schools, and evaluating teachers based upon student performance.

“All across the city, we face that same challenge – the challenge of building a 21st century economy and building the 21st century public schools that can drive it. It is the challenge of our time, and how well we meet it will define the state of our city for generations to come. So today, I’d like to share with you the new strategies we will adopt in 2012 to meet that challenge, and they all center on making our schools, our economy and our government the most innovative in the world,” said Bloomberg in his speech.

Bloomberg, who has served as NYC mayor since 2002, delivered his second to last State of the City speech on Thursday. The full speech can be read online or viewed in this video. Above Mayor Bloomberg is pictured speaking about education reform in his speech. Courtesy photo.

– InsideMedford.com