Senate Majority Leader Malcolm Smith personally assured Mayor Bloomberg yesterday that he ditched his own education task-force report, which would gut City Hall’s control of the schools.
“That report should not have been made public,” Smith said of the draft recommendations from Brooklyn Sen. Martin Malavé Dilan, co-chairman of the Senate Democratic Task Force on School Governance.
“We talked about the erroneous report on mayoral control,” Smith said of his conversation with the mayor.
“I did call him to say that that was not the position of our conference and that was not the position of the members of that committee.”
Bloomberg, who blasted the draft Senate report, expressed relief after Smith promised it was DOA.
“The mayor appreciated the call and is grateful for his support for the continuation of mayoral control,” said Bloomberg spokeswoman Dawn Walker.
Smith distanced himself from the draft recommendations — first revealed in Tuesday’s Post — calling for the return of an “independent” Board of Education that would undo mayoral control.
The 2002 law giving the mayor direct authority over the schools expires June 30.