letter from civil rights leaders Norman Siegel and Michael Meyers re the Cathie Black appointment
The appointment of Cathie Black as chancellor, a magazine executive who sent her children to private schools and has no education background, is an important turning point in the history of the Bloomberg administration. Why?
It has provoked a firestorm of controversy, with the rest of the city waking up to the way in which the mayor's uses his money, power and influence to disregard the normal rules of civil conduct. Aneditorial in El Diario is good example of the widespread disgust. This citywide moment of clarity has occurred only two times before: when Bloomberg fired three members of the PEP who disagreed with him immediately before a critical vote, and when he announced his intention to overturn term limits.
Parents and education advocates have long known and their kids have long suffered from the way in which the mayor behaves as though the public schools are his personal fiefdom, to do with whatever
