Bloomberg gets his schools chancellor in NYC
There is no guarantee that someone with a degree in education, or, engineering, or medicine, or any other subject, for that matter, will be good at their jobs. And there is no certainty that a lot of experience means someone has become an expert in their field. But it’s a good bet that degrees and experience make someone much more likely to be successful than someone who walks into a job with no related credential or experience. That’s why doctors should run hospitals and educators should run schools and school systems. And that’s why it is unfortunate that Cathleen Black, a media executive with no educational experience, is going to run the largest school district in the country. (Actually, she is on the board of a charter school, Harlem Village Academies, but the New York Daily News reported that she didn’t have much to do with the school.) .
