Mayor Adrian Fenty flatly dismissed giving the D.C. Council a vote on every planned closure of a D.C. Public School as proposed by a pair of council members this week.

“The job of the legislature is to make sure that the executive makes the schools excellent,” Fenty said in an interview with The Examiner. “So, I think everyone agrees on that. They have to oversee, make sure we’re doing our job. We actually have to do the work.”