The Issue: New York City mayoral hopefuls’ opposition to the release of teacher-data reports.

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All of these mayoral candidates are leftists and are supported by the teachers union (“Where Mayoral Candidates Stand,” Feb. 28).

Is there anyone who thinks Comptroller John Liu, Public Advocate Bill de Blasio, City Council Speaker Christine Quinn or Manhattan Borough President Scott Stringer would actually support any teacher-evaluation plan?

Who cares what they think, anyway? If they could think, they wouldn’t be leftists.

Barbara Paolucci

Manhattan

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When it comes to choosing between the United Federation of Teachers or being on the side of children, parents and taxpayers, the candidates all practice “Hear no Evil, Speak No Evil, See No Evil.”

There must be an open political quid pro quo between all four 2013 mayoral candidates, as shown by their genuflecting to the UFT’s demands.

The UFT is the most powerful, self-serving special-interest group on the political landscape today.

It spends more money than others in supporting its favorite candidates for public office.

Liu, de Blasio, Quinn and Stringer are all puppets on the UFT’s strings, just like the politicians and judges were in the pocket of Don Corleone in “The Godfather.”

Larry Penner

Great Neck

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Why was I not surprised to see that the four candidates all clearly stood with the teachers union in the release of teacher ratings?

Each one’s pathetic pandering to the union reads like they all are quoting from the same script, with phrases like “dubious data,” “misleading gimmicks,” “misleading data,” “mistake to think [that the released data is] a real way to evaluate anything.”

Who wrote this for them, UFT boss Michael Mulgrew?

Stuart Weiner

Red Bank, NJ

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Unlike Mayor Bloom-berg, I actually am a public-school parent, and The Post’s assertion that I would ever cut parents out of our school system is absurd (“Why Scores Matter,” Editorial, Feb. 28).

Whether the issue is special education, contentious co-locations or improving school-bus service, my focus has always been on bringing parents into the process.

Any argument to the contrary is an attempt to divert attention from the botched release of teacher ratings and the damage it is inflicting on our school communities.

Bill de Blasio

New York City

Public Advocate

Manhattan