The N.Y. chancellorship mess gets messier
New York City Mayor Michael Bloomberg likely did not anticipate the heavy pushback he would get against his decision to tap a media executive with no experience in public education as the next chancellor of New York’s public school system It’s about time that there’s a strong public backlash to an ill-considered education decision. This one has been so strong that the state education commissioner, David Steiner, appointed an eight-person panel that tomorrow will interview Cathleen Black, the Hearst Magazines president who Bloomberg named to succeed the retiring Joel Klein, and make a recommendation as to whether he should grant a waiver to allow her to take the job. Waivers are required for specific New York education jobs if candidates do not have sufficient experience in the education world. There is a reason that the law was passed in the first place: Experience matters. Bloomberg knew this when he founded
