New York City Mayor Michael Bloomberg says the governor should dispatch state troopers to haul state lawmakers back into session. He wants them to approve the bill giving him authority over city schools. The 2002 law giving Bloomberg control of the nation's largest school system expired last month.
The mayor and the five borough presidents hastily appointed a school board to keep the system running. Back on July 1, the new board picked Schools Chancellor Joel Klein as the "new" chancellor and demanded that Albany pass the mayoral control bill.
Bloomberg has been urging the Legislature to pass mayoral control again before the academic year. Bloomberg has lambasted the lawmakers in the past, calling the "paralysis in Albany a laughingstock from coast to coast."
Senators passed dozens of other bills late Thursday and early Friday but struggled to finish for the summer, not reaching an agreement on mayoral control.
A Paterson administration official says it's not likely a special session will be called before Labor Day.