Once more, the New York City mayor, Zohran Mamdani, and his schools chancellor, Kamar Samuels, will have to beg and haggle with state legislators over something that should be a non-issue: mayoral control of schools.

Both the state Senate and the Assembly left mayoral control out of their budget resolutions they proposed this week. For shame. Mayoral control expires on June 30, just 110 days from now.

For decades now, Albany lawmakers have extended this control only in fits and starts out of the recognition that it makes sense for the buck to stop with the mayor and his chancellor, yet they refuse to take the natural next step of long-term or even permanent extension of this control.

These perennial fights over control of schools certainly don’t serve the system’s nearly 850,000 students. They don’t serve the dedicated teachers who have in recent years navigated........

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