BUFFALO, N.Y. – Buffalo Mayor Byron W. Brown is studying the possibility of taking over the city’s miserable education system after years of public frustration over dismal academic outcomes.

Brown told the Buffalo News Wednesday he is exploring the possibility of the takeover now that the city’s finances are stabilized.

“Now we’re at the point where the community can begin to think about this as an option that makes sense,” he said.

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Brown had been hesitant to discuss a mayoral takeover of the school district in the past, but public frustration with the district is boiling over, despite assurances from the school board that the district’s graduation rates and school suspension rates are trending in the right direction.

“I think from the level of frustration and from the conversations that I’m having with many people and from what I’m hearing from many people and from many parents, (mayoral control is) definitely something that we are studying and looking at more closely,” Brown told the News.

The level of political support for such a change likely will depend on the details of any plan, but New York Gov. Andrew M. Cuomo and state Education Commissioner John B. King, Jr. have been critical of the district’s current leaders.

That’s important because a move to mayoral control would require both widespread community support and state legislation, the news site reports.

Brown discussed mayoral control of schools with several local business leaders attending a recent Buffalo Niagara Partnership meeting, and the idea was “well-received by the members of the business community.”

Local politicians also seemed receptive to the idea, though Assemblywoman Crystal D. Peoples-Stokes acknowledged many of her Democratic colleagues from New York City aren’t big fans of the approach.

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“I do think it makes sense for the mayor to be thinking about these things,” Peoples-Stokes, of Buffalo, told the News. “Right now, at this point, he doesn’t have many options.”

The community support could be the wild card. A Siena Research Institute poll from last fall showed 52 percent of likely Democratic voters opposed mayoral control, and only 36 percent of Democrats support it. Buffalo has an overwhelming majority of Democratic voters.

The teachers union, which currently holds a very generous contract with the school district, would also undoubtedly fight to keep the district under the control of school board members who are much easier to manipulate and control than the mayor ever would be.