Senators questioned testifiers about school governance and mayoral control. Senators empaneled included #simchafelder, #bradhoylman, #robertjackson, #johnliu, #shelleymayer, #luissepulveda, #tobystavisky and #alexisweik.

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0:00 Welcome
3:52 NYC Mayor Eric Adams
11:23 Chancellor David Banks, NYC Department of Education
2:02:18 Council Member Rita Joseph, Chair of the NYC Council Education Committee
2:13:00 Michael Mulgrew, President, United Federation of Teachers
2:09:01 Mark Cannizzaro, President, Council of School Supervisors and Administrators
3:02:11 Shirley Aubin, Co-Chair, Chancellor’s Parents Advisory Council
3:05:50 Ellen McHugh, President, Citywide Council of Special Education
3:11:11 Alysa O’Shea, Queens Representative, Citywide Council on High Schools
3:15:06 Tom Sheppard, Panel on Education Policy, CEC Presidents’ Appointee
3:24:47 Farah Despeignes, President, CEC 8
3:29:24 Dr. Meryem Bencheikh-Ellis, CEC 13
3:32:39 Tajh Sutton, President, CEC 14
3:35:59 Nancy Randall, CEC 15, Borough President Appointee
3:39:12 Camille Casaretti, President, CEC 15
3:54:55 NeQuan McLean, President, CEC 16
3:58:00 Stephen Stowe, President, CEC 20
4:02:09 Tazin Azad, 1st Vice President, CEC 22
4:16:25 Sara Catalinotto, Director, Parents to Improve School Transportation
4:20:25 Benita Lovett-Rivera, Co-Founder and Director, The Mothers’ Agenda NY
4:23:42 Faiza Mawjee, Co-Vice President for External Affairs, PS 77 PTA
4:27:46 Jennifer Goddard, Vice President Communications, NYC CEFT
4:34:57 Yiatin Chu and Lucas Liu, Co-Presidents, PLACE NYC
4:42:00 Tanesha Grant, CEO, Parents Supporting Parents
4:46:51 Leonie Haimson, Executive Director, Class Size Matters
4:50:20 Erika Nicole Kendall, Education Council Consortium
5:08:23 David Bloomfield, Professor, Brooklyn College and the CUNY Graduate Center
5:11:57 Jacquelyn Martell, State Director, Education Reform Now New York
5:15:34 Jennifer Choi, Advocate, Special Support Services LLC
5:18:42 Naftuli Moster, Executive Director, YAFFED
5:35:45 Dr. Marsha Jean-Charles, Director of Organizing, The Brotherhood Sister Sol
5:38:56 Sam Anderson, Professor, Black New Yorkers for Educational Excellence
5:42:41 Jacob Morris, Director, Harlem Historical Society
5:49:14 Yung-En Chen, Parent, PS896
5:51:26 Coralie Hook, Parent and Teacher, Students First NY
5:54:46 Lisa Milsaps-Graham, Parent, Students First NY
5:59:17 Chien Kwok, Parent
6:04:10 Arlene Rosado, Parent, Students First NY
6:13:38 Lisa Chu, Parent
6:17:46 Sergio Hernandez, Parent
6:20:36 Stacie Johnson, Parent
6:20:36 Lee Solomon, Parent
6:24:31 Kimberly Watkins, Parent
6:35:28 Michael Athy, retired Principal, Bayside High School
6:40:34 Carson Chodos, Teacher NYC DOE
6:43:29 Matthew Weintraub, Teacher, Academy for Software Engineering
6:47:08 Peter Goodman, Ed in the Apple
6:28:33 Kedem Deletis, parent
6:55:39 Lucia Curatolo-Boylan, parent
6:58:09 Amanda Lefer, parent
7:01:18 Anna Minsky, parent