“I am grateful that we reached an agreement with UTLA in a manner that reflects the dedicated work of our employees, provides a better academic experience for our students and raises the standards of compensation in Los Angeles and across the country,” Carvalho said in a statement.
It was a critical moment for Carvalho, who received acclaim for his work in Miami but faces an entirely different labor environment in Los Angeles. A three-day support staff strike last month shuttered Los Angeles schools and kept more than 350,000 students out of class. He escaped a repeat by reaching an agreement with the powerful UTLA.
“I’m hopeful that he learned some very valuable lessons,” UTLA President Cecily Myart-Cruz said in an interview. “Because he could have had two strikes within two months, and what would that have said about his leadership?”
The superintendent has spoken frequently about the need to make up instructional time lost during the pandemic since arriving in Los Angeles. Another strike would have dealt another setback to that goal and put his fragile relationship with labor at risk.
“I think he’s done an excellent job of positioning himself as an action-oriented leader, but I think he greatly underestimated the difference in the strength of labor unions at the bargaining table in California relative to Florida,” said Eric Premack, founder of the California Charter Schools Development Center, who used to do consulting work for Los Angeles Unified and other school districts.
Carvalho came to the U.S. from Portugal as an undocumented immigrant after he graduated from high school, settling in South Florida. He worked construction and restaurant jobs, and was at times homeless before becoming a teacher. He later did communications work and lobbied for the Miami-Dade School District, which he went on to run for 13 years.
He gained national prominence in the role, rebuffing entreaties to run for Congress and lead New York City Schools. But it wasn’t until 2022 that he left Miami, exhausted by his clashes with Gov. Ron DeSantis and other Republican politicians over school mask policies, curriculum restrictions and the treatment of LGBTQ students.
“I had been approached regarding LAUSD four times over the past decade, and concerning the political dynamic in Florida — a state I love, great people, great talent — I thought this would be a better match for me,” Carvalho told reporters last week in Sacramento, where he came to lobby for more school funding and other education proposals.
His 14-month tenure has been full of challenges, including a cyberattack that exposed families’ personal data, a student’s fatal opioid overdose at school and sliding enrollment and chronic absenteeism.
But he’s faced the steepest learning curve with bargaining.
In March, teachers, bus drivers and cafeteria workers walked picket lines, some holding cardboard signs deriding Carvalho’s fine suits and $440,000 salary. One included a picture of the superintendent surrounded by cartoon money bags with the caption “Mr. Miami Vice Grip.”
The superintendent’s administration, meanwhile, was negotiating on behalf of a school board in which the majority of members are aligned with UTLA. Labor-friendly President Jackie Goldberg told reporters the board is “completely overjoyed” with the agreement reached by the union and superintendent.
Carvalho has avoided another strike, for now. But for California superintendents and unions, the bargaining never really stops. The contract for support staff expires after next year, along with a massive chunk of federal coronavirus relief funding, compounding financial pressure on the district.
But he insists that he’s happy to have Florida and its politics at a 2,000-mile distance.
“We don’t ban books here. We don’t restrict curriculum. We acknowledge all individuals, regardless of gender, persuasion, whatever it is,” Carvalho said last week. “I think dealing with a different, more forceful union is a decent tradeoff I’m willing to take any day.”
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Mumbai: Amid the speculation regarding a possible alliance between the Nationalist Congress Party (NCP) and Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP), Union Minister Anurag Thakur said here on Tuesday that in politics “discussions keep happening.”
“In politics, discussions keep happening…some news should be enjoyed,” he told reporters.
Responding to the meeting of former Maharashtra Chief Minister Uddhav Thackeray with Congress leader KC Venugopal, Thakur said people will never accept the “Mahathagbadhan”.
“All corrupt parties are trying to take each other’s help. But people have never accepted this ‘Mahathagbadhan’ and they never will. Because their whole identity is without any policy, leader or leadership. They (Opposition) are just trying to cover up their corruption, prevent themselves from going to jail and keep their political existence alive,” the minister said.
He also hit out at the Opposition parties who are complaining about the law and order situation in Uttar Pradesh.
“When these mafia used to kill common people, businessmen, then none of these leaders gave any statements. The mafia used to get protection from the previous governments. The question arises why all these leaders are making statements now,” Thakur added.
Gangster-turned politician Atiq Ahmed, and his brother, Ashraf were killed by three assailants, who posed as mediapersons, on Saturday night, while they were being taken for medical checkup in Prayagraj, UP.
In wake of this incident, several opposition parties have been attacking the UP government flagging concerns regarding the law and order situation in the state.
Talking about his tour to Palghar, Thakur said that he has the responsibility of four Lok Sabha constituencies in Maharashtra.
“I have full faith that in the coming elections, the people will give their blessings to the BJP-Shiv Sena alliance,” he added.
But the political fervor among progressive Democrats for compulsory affordable housing attached to tax incentives for conversions could dampen developers’ interest in the costly overhauls. And it’s not clear any of the policy initiatives on the table will yield conversions on a broad enough scale to turn underpopulated downtowns into bustling residential neighborhoods. As major cities from Chicago to San Francisco to Washington also look to the overhauls, they remain expensive and logistically difficult to pursue.
“I don’t think there’s going to be as much as people think there will be, unless there were a lot of incentives for people to get there,” said Marty Burger, chief executive officer at Silverstein Properties in New York, which is pursuing some office-to-residential projects.
Three years into the pandemic, it’s become clear that remote work is not a temporary phenomenon. Just over half of Manhattan office workers are back at their desks on an average weekday, according to a recent survey of employers conducted by the Partnership for New York City, a business group.
Another recent study found hybrid work is costing Manhattan at least $12.4 billion in economic activity per year as office employees spend less money at lunch and coffee spots near their workplaces. While Manhattan office buildings — some of the most valuable real estate in the world — haven’t yet seen a significant sustained drop in valuations, long-term vacancies could be reflected in property assessments in the coming years, with potentially dire consequences for the city’s tax base. The city derives roughly 50 percent of its tax revenue from real estate.
Mayor Eric Adams has pointed to Lower Manhattan — which saw a wave of office buildings converted into apartments in the 1990s and early 2000s — as a template that could be replicated in Midtown, which has been harder hit by Covid-19 due to its reliance on the office crowd. But a range of factors limit the extent to which that success could be repeated.
“Midtown is a different building stock than lower Manhattan, so the success of lower Manhattan can’t be directly translated here,” said Vishaan Chakrabarti, who led the Manhattan division of the Department of City Planning under former Mayor Michael Bloomberg and now runs an architecture firm.
He noted Midtown office buildings are more likely to have structural features that complicate residential conversions, like large floor plans that make it difficult to break up buildings into individual apartments with sufficient windows. Buildings in Lower Manhattan that were converted in the last wave were largely older office properties — generally from the 1920s or earlier — that had operable windows, so a conversion wouldn’t require a complete facade replacement the way buildings from the 1960s, or onward, would.
“You can often tie that to the rise and efficiency of air conditioning, when you didn’t have to have operable windows,” said Eleanor Gorski, president and CEO of the Chicago Architecture Center and a former planning official for the city, which is pursuing a plan along the LaSalle Street corridor, a commercial thoroughfare in Chicago’s central business district. “But now turning them into residential, that’s the challenge.”
Silverstein evaluated some 2,500 office buildings in Manhattan below 96th street and found 323 were suitable for conversion based on a range of criteria. Indeed, the calculations can vary widely from property to property.
“What people may not realize is that with the office buildings, there’s so many individual building features that factor into cost,” said Basha Gerhards, senior vice president of planning at the Real Estate Board of New York. She cited the physical layout issues, but also when existing leases run out — which, in office buildings, can span ten years or more — and financial factors, like how much debt a building has and what the ownership structure is like.
The current economic environment, with high interest rates and inflation, doesn’t make the calculation any easier.
The Chicago plan, unveiled under Mayor Lori Lightfoot, seeks to create 1,000 new residential units along the LaSalle corridor, 30 percent of them affordable.
As Chicago looks to a specific office thoroughfare, officials in New York have taken a less targeted approach.
Gov. Kathy Hochul proposed legislation in her executive budget to remove zoning and building regulations that can make it harder to convert office properties into residential. She also proposed an incentive program that would offer developers a 19-year property-tax exemption if they set aside 20 percent of the residential units for low- and middle-income households.
Dan Garodnick, chair of New York’s Department of City Planning, has been careful to note the measure would simply remove barriers to conversions and incentivize affordable housing, though it will be up to the private sector how much they take advantage of the opportunity.
“While we are enabling, or what we propose to do is enable 136 million square feet to be eligible, we do not believe that 136 million square feet will take us up on the opportunity,” he said at a City Council hearing earlier this year. City officials have said 136 million square feet is roughly the amount of office space in the entire city of Philadelphia.
In San Francisco, Mayor London Breed introduced legislation last month to remove certain city requirements that can limit office-to-housing conversions. That comes as a bill before the California legislature seeks to make approvals for such conversions automatic, and offer grants to developers who pursue office-to-residential projects with a 10 percent affordable housing set-aside.
Mayor Muriel Bowser in Washington, D.C., meanwhile, set an ambitious goal earlier this year of increasing the population of the city’s downtown from 25,000 to 40,000 over five years, alongside a program that would give office owners a 20-year tax break if they converted to housing and set aside at least 15 percent of homes for low- and middle-income households.
In New York, a tax break known as 421-g was established in 1995 to help facilitate conversions in Lower Manhattan. That program, which did not require any affordable housing in exchange, generated nearly 13,000 new apartments at a cost of $1.2 billion, or $92,000 per unit, according to the Citizens Budget Commission.
Some experts argue there’s a benefit — particularly for the future financial health of Midtown — to a more direct approach, with government offering more generous incentives to actively encourage widespread conversions.
“If it’s limited to [the governor’s proposal] I don’t think much is going to happen on this, I don’t think people understand how much surgery these buildings are going to require,” Chakrabarti said. “The question for government becomes, what’s the public good that comes from these conversions, why should we incentive them so much beyond affordable housing, and I think there’s a stronger argument for that in Midtown than people are realizing.”
Other experts say it would be a mistake to allow widespread conversions to high-cost housing without including affordable housing. Vicki Been, New York’s top housing official under former Mayor Bill de Blasio, co-wrote a recent op-ed arguing any regulatory changes to make way for office conversions should require a portion of every building be set aside for income-restricted housing, rather than just offering a tax incentive for affordable units.
“If New York passes a law that will end up producing thousands of luxury apartments that only the wealthiest can afford, and resulting in zero permanently affordable homes for hard-working regular New Yorkers, then what will we have done?” Been and her co-authors wrote in Gotham Gazette.
Meanwhile, several city and state lawmakers believe the affordable housing requirements in the proposed tax break — that 20 percent of a building be affordable — would be insufficient. State Assemblymember Deborah Glick introduced an alternative to Hochul’s proposal that would lift certain state restrictions limiting conversions, but require 40 percent of new units be set aside as affordable housing.
Multiple developers cited a need for deeper incentives than what’s on the table in New York.
“I think it’s a mistake to tie it to affordable [housing],” Scott Rechler, CEO of the development firm RXR, said of a potential tax incentive for conversions. “I think addressing the tax incentive and broadening what is in those incentives would be valuable.”
For now, owners pursuing conversions should be aware it’s a risk.
“We don’t want people that just think that they can take any building, convert it, and then they’re in the middle of this thing, and now you have a building that was an office building, was trying to be converted, and now it’s nothing,” Burger, of Silverstein, said. “Because then you just have to blow the thing up.”
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Patna: While the politics of Iftar continues in Bihar, Upendra Kushwaha-led Rashtriya Lok Janata Dal (RLJD) has decided not organise such an event this year.
Kushwaha, while interacting with media persons in Patna said: “Going for an Iftar party is similar to sprinkling salt on the wounds that happened due to the communal violence during the Ram Navami processions in Sasaram and Bihar Sharif.”
“The holy month of Ramzan is currently underway and people are organising Iftar parties. Some prominent people invited me for the Iftar parties. A number of members of my party also suggested that I organise an Iftar party. In view of the current situation in Sasaram and Bihar Sharif, I personally believe that instead of organising an event, we have to make it convenient for ‘Rozedars (Muslim people who do the fast during the month of Ramzan)’. At present, ointments are needed to fill wounds. Organising events could be viewed as sprinkling salt on the wounds,” Kushwaha said.
Earlier, the BJP distanced itself from Nitish Kumar’s Iftar party after Ram Navami violence. Chief Minister Nitish Kumar had invited every political party, including BJP, LJPR, RLJD and others, but the leaders of these three political parties stayed away.
On Sunday, the RJD is organising an Iftar party at Rabri Devi’s residence. RJD also invited BJP leaders, Upendra Kushwaha and Chirag Paswan. BJP and Upendra Kushwaha decided not to go in the iftar party of RJD. As Chirag Paswan has close family relations with Lalu’s family, he will go for the Iftar party at Rabri Devi residence.
New Delhi: Rajya Sabha MP Kapil Sibal on Sunday accused the BJP of indulging in “politics of convenience”, as he hit back at Prime Minister Narendra Modi over his remarks on dynasty in Telangana and cited past instances of the party aligning with dynastic political families in various states.
Addressing a public meeting in Hyderabad, Prime Minister Modi took a swipe at Bharat Rashtra Samithi chief and Telangana Chief Minister K Chandrasekhar Rao and urged the state government to not allow any hindrance in the works related to the development.
In a tweet, Sibal said, “PM Takes swipe at KCR: Says corruption and dynasty go hand in hand. Why did BJP join: 1) Punjab (Akalis) 2) Andhra (Jagan) 3) Haryana (Chautalas) 4) J&K (Muftis) 5) Maharashtra (Thackerays)…Not dynasties when BJP joined them!”
“It’s called politics of convenience!” the former Union minister said.
In another tweet, Sibal said, “PM: Takes a swipe at KCR, says dynasty and corruption go hand in hand. BJP makes allegations of corruption against AAP. No dynasty there. Need not be dynasty to allege corruption.”
“You say BJP not dynasty. Is BJP corrupt?” he said.
In his remarks in Telangana, Modi said his government has attacked the real root of corruption of dynastic forces who want to keep their control over every system.
“Should we fight against corruption or not? Should we fight against the corrupt or not? Should the country be liberated from corruption or not? Should legal steps be taken against the corrupt however big or not. Should the law be allowed to work against the corrupt or not,” he asked the gathering.
That’s why “these people” are upset and they are doing anything out of anger, Modi said.
Modi, who said corruption and ‘parivarvaad’ (dynasty) are not different from each other, maintained that every type of corruption begins to grow where there is ‘parivarvaad’.
Siddaramaiah further added that he will still be in active politics but after this election, he won’t accept any posts which will be in Delhi.
Karnataka Leader of Opposition (LoP) and Congress leader Siddaramaiah on Friday said that the upcoming Karnataka Assembly elections is going to be his last electoral battle and he will retire from politics.
Talking to ANI, Siddaramaiah said, “I am contesting from Varuna assembly constituency as my native village comes under this constituency. This is going to be my last election. I will retire from electoral politics.”
Siddaramaiah further added that he will still be in active politics but after this election, he won’t accept any posts which will be in Delhi.
“I am contesting from Varuna (assembly constituency) as it has been cleared by the party’s high command. It’s not that I am interested to contest but Kolar people want me to contest from there”, he said.
Siddaramaiah said that Congress is expecting more than 130 seats this time.
“We are expecting more than 130 seats this time and Congress Party will come to power with a comfortable majority on its own. People have decided to change the government”, he added.
He also slammed at Prime Minister Narendra Modi, Karnataka Chief Minister Basavaraj Bommai and Union Home Minister Amit Shah and said, “Basavaraj Bommai miserably failed to protect the interest of Kannadigas. He has no business to continue as CM. Modi and Shah are coming to Karnataka to get votes and claim it’s a double-engine government but Maharashtra government is blatantly interfering with the freedom of the state.”
Siddaramaiah also added that he treats all human beings equally and not based on which community they identify with.
“BJP is a sectarian party. Ours is a secular party. There can’t be any disparity among the people of Karnataka. I treat all human beings equally whether they belong to Hindu, Muslim, Christian, or any other community or religion, I treat them all equally”, he said.
Siddaramaiah said that there are no differences between him and Karnataka Congress president DK Shivakumar.
“My relationship with DK Shivakumar is cordial. There are no differences between us. Of course, differences exist in democracy but it is not detrimental to the interests of the party”, LoP added.
Siddaramaiah also hit out at the state government’s decision to ban reservation of Muslims in the state and said “Recategorising (of reservation) is not proper, not constitutional. It is not valid… We’ve no objection to increasing the reservation of Vokkaliga & Lingayat but why you abolished the reservation of Muslims… It clearly shows vendetta, hate politics.”
Congress on Thursday announced its second list of 42 candidates, for the Karnataka assembly elections but no decision has yet been taken on who would contest from Kolar even as Siddaramaiah has expressed a desire to contest from the constituency.
According to sources, the Congress top brass has asked Siddaramaiah to contest from his traditional stronghold of Varuna in the Mysuru district, where his son doctor Yatindra Siddaramaiah won in the 2018 Assembly Elections.
Sources said that earlier, amid disagreementsbetween the party’s local leaders in Kolar, the Congress High Command had instructed the 75-year-old former chief minister to drop his plan to contest from the Kolar assembly segment
The Congress has also accommodated candidates who switched to the party from the BJP and the Janata Dal (Secular). The party is seeking to wrest power from BJP in the state in the upcoming polls.
Meanwhile, former minister Vinay Kulkarni who has been named by Congress as its candidate from Dharwad constituency will have to campaign remotely since the Supreme Court has barred his entry into the district after the CBI named him in connection with the 2016 murder case of Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) worker, Yogeeshgouda Goudar.
Kulkarni has been out on bail on the condition that he will not enter the district nor will do anything to tamper with the evidence in the murder case.
Kulkarni was allegedly involved in connection with the murder of Goudar, on June 15, 2016, after he defeated the rival Congress party candidate in the Zila Panchayat elections.
On Tuesday, Congress President Mallikarjun Kharge said that the party will conduct an extensive discussion on candidates for the remaining 100 seats in the State.
The Congress had on March 25 announced its first list of 124 candidates for the polls, which included names of former Chief Minister Siddaramaiah and State Party president DK Shivakumar.
Elections are slated to be held in Karnataka in a single phase on May 10, and the counting of votes will take place on May 13.
Karnataka, which has 224 seats in the Assembly currently has 119 MLAs of the ruling BJP, while Congress has 75 and its ally JD(S) has 28 seats.
Political parties in the State including the ruling BJP, Congress and ally JD(S) are engaged in a spate of allegations and counter-allegations, with the latter attempting to corner the government over the issue of corruption.
Notably, while the opposition Congress and Janata Dal Secular have announced 166 and 93 candidates respectively so far, the ruling BJP is yet to announce its first list of candidates for the 224-seat assembly elections in Karnataka.
Kaushambi: Attacking Congress leader Rahul Gandhi over his recent remarks in the UK, Union Home Minister Amit Shah on Friday said that it’s not democracy that is in danger, but “your family” and the idea of dynasty politics that is under threat.
At two public meetings in Uttar Pradesh during the day, he also slammed the Samajwadi Party and the Bahujan Samaj Party. In Azamgarh, which has a sizeable Muslim population, he said under the previous state governments, 24-hour power supply was available “only during Ramzan”. “Now the BJP government has ensured power to entire Uttar Pradesh and heralded a new period of development,” he added.
Shah inaugurated the Kaushambi Mahotsav and honoured several players of the ‘Sansad Khel Spardha’. Later, he laid the foundation stone for the Harihar music college in Azamgarh.
He said Azamgarh was earlier known as the “centre of terrorism”, a reference to some of the accused in terror cases like the 2008 Ahmedabad serial bomb blasts hailing from the district.
But now its identity has changed to a hub of development, Shah said.
“I was the home minister of Gujarat when there were bomb blasts in Ahmedabad. The police had caught the main ‘sutradhaar’ (culprit) of it from Azamgarh,” he said.
“I want to congratulate Yogi ji (CM Yogi Adityanath). In Azamgarh, which was considered the centre of terror across the country, he got the foundation of a music college laid to give respect to its heritage,” Shah said.
In Kaushambi, Shah hit out at Gandhi for claiming in the UK that democracy is under threat, accusing his party of surrounding the Indian democracy with three “naasuron” (ulcerous wounds) casteism, dynasty politics and appeasement. But Prime Minister Narendra Modi defeated all three and hence “you are afraid,” he added.
“They say democracy is in danger. Brother, democracy is not in danger, your family is in danger. It is not the idea of India which is in danger, it is the idea of dynasty, your politics of ‘parivarvad’ (dynasty), which are in danger. It is not the democracy of India, but the autocracy of your family, which is in danger,” the senior BJP leader said.
The BJP has accused Gandhi of “insulting” the country on foreign soil and demanded an apology, but the Congress leader has said his position that India’s democracy was under attack “was known” to all.
Shah also accused the Congress party of not allowing Parliament to function.
“Yesterday, the Parliament was adjourned. In the history of independent India, it has never happened that the Budget Session ended without a sitting and discussion… What was the reason? Rahul Gandhi was disqualified as Lok Sabha MP,” the Union minister said.
On March 18, a Surat court sentenced Gandhi to two years in jail in a defamation case over his Modi surname remark. A day later, the Lok Sabha Secretariat suspended his Lok Sabha membership.
Congress accused the BJP of indulging in “vindictive politics” but the ruling party said it was the law.
On Friday, addressing the gathering in Kaushambi, Shah asked, “Who brought the law?”
He also said Gandhi was not the only leader whose membership has “gone” after sentencing by a court. “So far, the membership of 17 MLAs-MPs has gone, including that of Rahul Gandhi.”
Recalling his earlier visits to UP, before the BJP government came to power in the state, Shah said in Azamgarh there was hardly a night when power was available in rural areas. He also said it was difficult to imagine UP being “riot-free” but the Adityanath government has made it possible.
Slamming SP chief Akhilesh Yadav, who contested and won from Azamgarh Lok Sabha seat in the previous election, Shah asked the people whether he “was he seen” during the coronavirus pandemic.
“Had he come here to give vaccination doses? The prime minister got the entire country vaccinated, provided foodgrains to the poor,” the Union minister said.
Those who support Trump must acknowledge this new illiberal reality. The elite’s destruction of civic customs is complete. In the coming months, we shall see pro-Trump forces using the same corrosive tactics — or lose utterly.
“The start of a new era in which no one is above the law.”
Julia Azari is a professor of political science at Marquette University.
Trump’s indictment might have a somewhat counterintuitive effect on the 2024 nomination race: His legal troubles might encourage other Republicans to get into the race, as we saw with long-shot candidate Asa Hutchinson last week. So far, we haven’t seen a stampede of new candidates. But if that does happen in response to any perceived vulnerability on Trump’s part, having a larger field of candidates could help him win the nomination by splitting up the non-Trump vote.
The connection between politics and presidential accountability is an even more interesting one, in my opinion. We don’t have a monarchy in this country, and presidents are supposed to have the same status as everyone else. But the presidency has long had an air of ceremony and statesmanship, signifying the power it holds. This makes the politics of holding the president accountable especially painful, for their political supporters and the country as a whole. Part of the logic of President Gerald Ford’s pardon of President Richard Nixon after Watergate was to end our “national nightmare.” But in 2023, things have changed. Politics often feels like a nightmare anyway, so there’s no sense in trying to dodge the conflict inevitable in a post-presidential investigation. Polarization has helped to erode some of the mystique of the office, and that might be a good thing in the end.
It’s impossible to separate law from politics entirely when charging a former president. It’s going to be messy, but possibly the start of a new era in which no one is above the law — not even those once charged with executing it.
This prosecution may be the only way to avert a slide into authoritarianism.
Kimberly Wehle is a visiting professor at the American University Washington College of Law.
As I wrote for POLITICO Magazine precisely a year ago, the cost of not indicting Trump would be a presidency without guardrails. Today, the stakes of this prosecution are arguably even higher, as he’s now a candidate for the 2024 presidential race and favored for the Republican nomination. Numerous polls have him at a double-digit lead over Florida Governor Ron DeSantis.
A criminally convicted Trump would look unappealing to many swing voters, potentially knocking him out of serious contention for the White House. It thus may be the only way to avert either another contested presidential election with widespread violence or, worse, a slide into authoritarianism.
Trump deserves credit for one thing, at the very least: He says what he is going to do, and he does it. If he is the GOP nominee, there are two possible outcomes. Both are deeply disturbing.
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