NYC chancelloer-designate layoffs based on seniority "one of the most crippling policies on the books"

Chancellor-designate Dennis Walcott viewed as a mouth piece for Mayor Michael Bloomberg, while some fear he is too close to the Mayor to be independent from him. Recently at a NYC Council hearing, he is said to have " repeated a mantra of the Bloomberg administration, that the state law protecting the most senior teachers in the event of layoffs was “one of the most crippling policies on the books.”