The board also elected a president, Deputy Mayor Dennis M. Walcott, the Queens appointee, and passed a resolution calling on Albany to renew mayoral control. Then it adjourned until Sept. 10.  The only hint of discord came when Dolores M. Fernández, the Bronx member, abstained from two votes. After the meeting, Dr. Fernández said she felt there should be opportunity for more debate.  There was no chance for public comment at the end, a decision that angered some parent advocates.  The State Assembly passed a bill in June that would preserve the mayor’s dominance over the school system but add a few checks to his power. It has yet to be debated in the Senate, and John L. Sampson, the Democrats’ new leader in the Senate, has said he wants more changes to the bill. On Wednesday he showed no sign of compromising.  “We are not about to engage in any sort of chaos,” Mr. Sampson said. “We still have time.”  At a news conference, Mr. Bloomberg denounced the “reckless behavior” of state lawmakers and called the city’s efforts to maintain continuity “Band-Aids, not solutions.” He said he was “trying to continue on as though mayoral control was approved.”  “Since the Senate refused to exercise its duties responsibly,” he said, “we here in the city are moving to protect our children.”  In the weeks ahead, the city school system still faces significant legal hurdles, and on Wednesday it appeared that there was no clear consensus on how to proceed.  Still unresolved, for instance, is the question of how the city will handle the 32 neighborhood school boards that were part of the system replaced by mayoral control. The boards were responsible for overseeing local elementary and middle schools and for hiring superintendents, and the Bloomberg administration replaced them with parent councils, which had limited power.  Elections for the neighborhood boards are scheduled for May. In the meantime, it is unclear whether the city can simply reappoint those parent councils to serve the function of the school board. On Wednesday, at least one of the parent councils passed a resolution calling on the city to reappoint its members until elections are held.  At his news conference, Mr. Bloomberg did not offer any details of how the neighborhood boards might be reconstituted, saying it was one of many issues that the city would need to resolve in the coming weeks. Randi Weingarten, president of the teachers’ union, called for the Board of Education to meet more frequently over the summer to resolve some of the legal issues.  Besides Dr. Fernández and Mr. Walcott, the members of the new board are Patricia E. Harris and Edward Skyler, deputy mayors appointed by Mr. Bloomberg; Edward Burke, the deputy borough president of Staten Island; Carlo A. Scissura, chief of staff of Marty Markowitz, the Brooklyn borough president; and Jimmy Yan, general counsel to Scott M. Stringer, the Manhattan borough president.  Though the board president is entitled to a salary of $20,000 and the other members $15,000, the members agreed to forgo the pay.  An article in some editions on Thursday about a bill to extend mayoral control of New York City’s schools, which expired during a stalemate in the New York State Senate, thereby resurrecting a Board of Education, referred incorrectly to the jurisdiction that community school boards once had. They were in charge of elementary and middle schools, not middle and high schools.  A version of this article appears in print on , on Page A15 of the New York edition with the headline: Senate Impasse Forces City to Revive Old School Board, in Name. Order Reprints| Today's Paper|Subscribe
The law establishing mayoral control was not renewed, so the old New York City Board of Education was reconstituted, with mayoral supporters.