That Was Fast
From Crain's, Cathleen Black, the newly installed Chancellor of Schools in NYC, has resigned. No big surprise because:
Ms. Black ascended to the city's top education post last fall amid heavy criticism that she was not a suitable choice. She had no professional background in education and no direct experience with the city's public school system, having sent her children to boarding school in Connecticut.
Critics said her only qualification was that she traveled in the same high-powered Manhattan circuit as Mr. Bloomberg. It was only after the Bloomberg administration struck a deal with the state Board of Regents that Ms. Black was granted a waiver (for not having the required education experience) that she was allowed to become chancellor.
In that deal, a largely unknown former principal and education administrator was appointed to the newly created post of chief academic officer. It was hoped that Shael Polakow-Suransky would silence critics and allow Ms. Black to learn the ropes and move forward.
I guess having a CAO educator wasn't enough.
Ms. Black ascended to the city's top education post last fall amid heavy criticism that she was not a suitable choice. She had no professional background in education and no direct experience with the city's public school system, having sent her children to boarding school in Connecticut.
Critics said her only qualification was that she traveled in the same high-powered Manhattan circuit as Mr. Bloomberg. It was only after the Bloomberg administration struck a deal with the state Board of Regents that Ms. Black was granted a waiver (for not having the required education experience) that she was allowed to become chancellor.
In that deal, a largely unknown former principal and education administrator was appointed to the newly created post of chief academic officer. It was hoped that Shael Polakow-Suransky would silence critics and allow Ms. Black to learn the ropes and move forward.
I guess having a CAO educator wasn't enough.
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I'll bet: Mr. P-S "graduated" Broad Academy, 2008. "Silence critics" with Broad twisted-data-babble, maybe.
Given Broad's twisting of data, it is ironic that Mr. P-S was, before becoming CEO, NYC's Chief Accountability Officer.
Here is what the NY Times had to say.
http://cityroom.blogs.nytimes.com/2011/04/07/cathie-black-is-out-as-chancellor/
http://nymag.com/daily/intel/2011/04/times_cathie_black_is_out_as_s.html?imw=Y&f=most-viewed-24h5
NY Daily News Report
New Chancellor is on front page of NY Times =>
http://www.nytimes.com/
Why does teaching get so little respect?