New York Schools Chancellor Ends 8-Year Run

[nyc 4 Biden]

Source: NY Times

Joel I. Klein, who presided over a radical reorganization of the New York City school system and drew praise and criticism for efforts to raise test scores and hold teachers accountable for them, resigned on Tuesday as chancellor after eight years in the job.

Mayor Michael R. Bloomberg appointed Cathleen P. Black, the chairwoman of Hearst Magazines, as Mr. Klein’s successor. Ms. Black will be the first woman to head the nation’s largest school system, with a $23 billion budget, 135,000 employees and one million students.

The decision was also noteworthy for the fact that Ms. Black, 66, has no educational background, in keeping with Mr. Bloomberg’s preference for executives from the business world. Because of that, she will need a waiver from the State Education Department; Mr. Klein, who had also been a media executive, was granted one when he took over, in 2002.

Mr. Klein, who had long planned to serve only through two mayoral terms, mulled the decision for the last few months and in the past week landed a job as an executive vice president at News Corporation.

Read more: http://www.nytimes.com/2010/11/10/nyregion/10klein.html?partner=rss&emc=rss&pagewanted=all

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Another person with no teaching experience, no degree in an education-related field, never went to public school, and doesn't send her kids to public school. So her job as a media executive will be to try and spin Bloomberg's "reforms" to not appear to be the utter failures that they are.

Her Husband:
She is married to Thomas E. Harvey, a longtime lawyer for the Institute of International Education, which promotes exchange programs, and a regular donor to Republican candidates and causes. In 1992, he was Personnel Director of the Bush-Quayle '92 Campaign. In 1977 he was selected to be a White House Fellow, and in that capacity, served as special assistant to the Director of the C.I.A.<BUSH> Following that he held senior appointed positions within the Department of Defense.

[pattmarty]

1. And, Klein got a job with News corp? Looks like the "privatization".......

......of our educational system is almost complete. In the future people with "money" will pay to send their kids to a "charter" school and the rest can send their kids to rotting buildings in shitty areas to stare at the dirty, scarred walls with 100 kid classrooms, or just keep them out of school so they can work.

[ElsewheresDaughter]

2. another step down the stairs of dismantling department of education in the US

[nyc 4 Biden]

3. If you believe this quote, I have a bridge to sell you...

At a press conference with Black and Klein on Tuesday, Bloomberg said of his new chancellor: "There is no one who knows more about the skills our children will need to succeed in the 21st century economy."

[LiberalFighter]

4. It's bad enough when school administrators with degrees in education

are fucked up but employing outside the field to do their job is a horrendous idea.

The bad school administrators with degrees imo are the ones that had little teaching experience.

It use to be that people would start at the bottom and work their way up getting to know the business. Now I guess that isn't necessary. Because it isn't important to run a good business. It's only important to see how much you can steal before it goes under.