Blow to Bloomberg: Panel votes down mayor's pick for schools chancellor Cathie Black
Originally Published:Tuesday, November 23rd 2010, 5:47 PM
Updated: Tuesday, November 23rd 2010, 6:44 PM
Seth Wenig
The new chancellor of New York City Public Schools Cathie Black.In a stunning blow to Mayor Bloomberg, his controversial pick for schools chancellor got a thumbs-down Tuesday from a state advisory panel.
State Commissioner David Steiner asked the panel of eight education experts to vote down media exec Cathie Black's application for a state waiver - for now.
"My recommendation was they vote 'not at this time,'" said Steiner, who has the final say.
Steiner favored an approach that would require the city to resubmit Black's application and officially designate a chief academic officer, who Black can rely on to fill in for her lack of education experience,
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