"This is puerile game-playing at the expense of schools, their teachers and pupils," she said.
Mr. Wagner also said the board dwelt excessively on lawsuits involving the board at the expense of school policy.
"It's narrowly cast by a lot of the players as taking care of their taxpayers, at the expense of schools who really need it".
Greening never commissioned the review as she worried the cash would come at the expense of schools, early years and technical education.
In the 1970s, however, the number of Russian-language and bilingual schools grew steadily at the expense of schools offering instruction in the native languages, even in territories with a majority of non-Russian ethnic groups.
And then, the Realpolitik: a World Cup that even the inventors of the jogo bonito don't seem especially to want, because they believe it comes at the expense of schools and hospitals, the real concerns of a mushrooming middle class.
The governor's efforts to claim that school districts could afford to cut spending were drowned out, and his firm stance against raising income taxes began to make it seem he was protecting the rich at the expense of school children, political strategists and pollsters say.
(Remember when he, the vice president, misspelled potato at an elementary school in 1992, putting an 'e' at the end?) Now we have the case of the Senate, in this troubled economic age, taking the time to take care of the interests of industrial potato farmers at the possible expense of school kids.
Whit Clay, a spokesman for the New York Association for Better Choices, a coalition of groups and officials opposed to the stadium of which the Garden is a member, said that the Garden was just one of those "who oppose spending $600 million for a football stadium on the West Side at the expense of schools, health care, affordable housing and public safety".
