After weeks of warring with Gov. Cuomo and education advocates over the contentious topic of charter schools, Mayor de Blasio plans to extend an olive branch in a speech Sunday morning, sources have told The Post.
“It’s an effort to stop the bleeding,” one source said of the ongoing war, in which the mayor took a severe public relations beating after blocking the opening of three charters this fall.
The mayor also got heat for eliminating $210 million construction funds for the popular privately-managed, publicly-funded schools.
“He hopes to re-establish a dialogue” another source said.
The mayor is also expected to tout his plans for universal pre-kindergarten and expanded after-school programs during the speech, at Riverside Church in Morningside Heights.
The church is near one of the schools he’s blocking, the Success Academy Middle School.