John Catsimatidis, Chairman & CEO, Red Apple Group, Inc. Burger, Chief Executive Officer, Silverstein Properties, Inc. John Bruckner, President, NY, National Grid Neil Blumenthal, Co-Founder & Co-CEO, Warby ParkerĪlbert Bourla, Chief Executive Officer, Pfizer Inc. Blumenthal, Managing Partner, Blue Wolf Capital Management Kathy Bloomgarden, Chief Executive Officer, Ruder Finn, Inc.Īdam M. Berkman, Managing Partner, Associated Partners, LP Beinecke, Senior Partner, Hughes Hubbard & Reed LLP Robert Bakish, President & CEO, Viacom Inc.Ĭandace K. Ainslie, III, Managing Partner, Maverick CapitalĮllen Alemany, Chairman & CEO, CIT Group Inc. We urge you to pass a multi-year extension of the current law and not risk reversion to a dysfunctional governance system. These improvements would not have been possible without the clarity of a system in which the mayor has the clear authority over leadership, labor contracts, management and budget. More students than ever are taking and passing Advanced Placement exams and English test scores are up in every district.
Graduation rates are up and disparities due to income and race are being reduced. The governance system that was put in place by state legislative action in 2002 has resulted in demonstrable improvements in educational outcomes in the city. Mayoral accountability for management of the system is essential to achieving that objective. A quality education is the key to unlocking economic opportunity for the city’s residents. New York City’s business community strongly supports multi-year extension of mayoral control of the New York City public school system. Albany has refused to make the system permanent, despite the fact that it is clearly superior to alternatives that caused schools to deteriorate.ĭear Governor Cuomo, Senate Majority Leader Stewart-Cousins, and Assembly Speaker Heastie, Since 2002, when the mayor was given responsibility for governance of the schools, there have been significant improvements in educational outcomes for the city’s students. Fink earned an MBA from the University of California at Los Angeles (UCLA) in 1976 and a BA from UCLA in 1974.Today, the Partnership for New York City issued a letter signed by over 100 business leaders urging Governor Cuomo and the state legislature to extend mayoral control over the city’s public schools. He also serves on the Advisory Board of the Tsinghua University School of Economics and Management in Beijing and on the Executive Committee of the Partnership for New York City. In addition, he serves on the boards of the Museum of Modern Art, the Council on Foreign Relations and the International Rescue Committee. He serves as a member of the Board of Trustees of New York University (NYU) and the World Economic Forum, and is Co-Chairman of the NYU Langone Medical Center Board of Trustees.
Fink was a member of the Management Committee and a Managing Director of The First Boston Corporation. BlackRock's mission is to help our clients build better financial futures and the firm is trusted to manage more money than any other investment company in the world. He and seven partners founded BlackRock in 1988, and under his leadership, the firm has grown into a global leader in investment and technology solutions. Fink is Chairman and Chief Executive Officer of BlackRock.
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