By Trashing NYS Law, Steiner Plan Will Open the Floodgates for “Management Executive” School Superintendents
State Education Commissioner David Steiner’s plan to grant an education qualifications waiver to Cathleen Black as NYC Schools Chancellor will, if effectuated, render moot the current NYS law mandating those requirements. The precedent he will be setting and the message he will be sending to school districts throughout NYS and across the country would be both revolutionary and crystal clear: the door is open for school districts and school boards to follow the corporate executive management model and hire anyone they wish to run their schools.
NYS Education Law 3003, Subdivision 1, could not clearer on the required