ALBANY, NY (AP) -- New York City's hastily appointed seven-member Board of Education has voted to reappoint Schools Chancellor Joel Klein with full authority to run the school system.
The Board of Education was reinstated by city officials on Wednesday after the state Senate failed to act on a bill to renew Mayor Michael Bloomberg's control of the schools. The bill expired at midnight.
At a news conference at City Hall, Bloomberg said the new board and his administration will do their best to keep city schoolchildren ``from becoming victims of the Albany train wreck.''
He said, ``It will serve until Albany rectifies its inaction and reauthorizes mayoral control.''
The board voted 7-0 to reappoint Klein during a nine-minute meeting. It also voted 6-0, with one abstention, to urge the state Senate to act on the mayoral control bill.
The board then adjourned until Sept. 10.
The city school system has 1.1 million students.
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