The morning after: Council ed committee looks at school sites

In what may be the most anti-climactic City Council hearing ever, the council’s education and landmarks committees have just convened for an oversight hearing about how the Department of Education chooses sites for new schools. The hearing started nearly half an hour late. Robert Jackson, chair of the Education Committee, told the smattering of attendees waiting to hear from Garth Harries of the Department of Education’s Office of Portfolio Development that some council members were “still recovering, or trying to recover” from yesterday’s historic term limits vote.