The Kanye West Of Municipal Executives

Mr. Mayor, we don’t mind looking the other way while your Department of Education cooks the books on test scores because ultimately we don’t necessarily care that there isn’t a large difference in results — we only care that school boards are lame and mayoral control makes more sense. That, however, does not give you latitude to come up with ludicrous claims like you have “changed public education as we know it” like you’re Bill Clinton circa 1996 and this is welfare or something because that’s when we check out:

Mayor Bloomberg said yesterday that under his administration, the city has “changed public education as we know it” — and predicted a deal will be reached with state lawmakers to renew mayoral control of the schools.