Recently we have been seeing mayor Bill de Blasio in the current news a lot due to his views and goals for charter schools. De Blasio originally stood by the side of his predecessor Michael Bloomberg of supporting charter schools and making education a top priority. The reason why de Blasio has been attacked publicly is because he declined to prohibit three charter schools to open in public school buildings. This brought up  a whirlwind of backlash and has hurt de Blasio’s support throughout the education field. Although it seems like mayor de Blasio has his back towards a wall he actually pulled off a smart counter move in order to try and win some of the support back. He decided to make a surprise appearance at a meeting filled with charter school executives and talked to them for close to an hour about the importance of education. The mayor has also stated publicly that he’s never been against charter schools and that one of his main goals to tackle is to convince lawmakers in Albany to raise taxes on the wealthy and that would help support prekindergarten and after-school classes. One more tiny thing to consider is all three of the schools that de Blasio decided not to open, all are ran by the head of the Success Academy Charter Schools, Eva S. Moskowitz who is a long time rival of mayor de Blasio.