Rise & Shine: Black’s role at Coke at odds with city’s soda policy | GothamSchools

Rise & Shine: Black’s role at Coke at odds with city’s soda policy | GothamSchools

Rise & Shine: Black’s role at Coke at odds with city’s soda policy

by Philissa Cramer

• On Coca-Cola’s board, Cathie Black sat on a committee that dealt with keeping Coke in schools. (Times)
• Discussion of Black’s appointment dominated last night’s school board meeting. (Times, WNYC)
• Black visited Tweed Courthouse yesterday for the first time since being appointed. (GothamSchools)
• Black says 40 years of management experience qualifies her to be chancellor. (NY1)
• Members of the state legislature’s minority caucus are registering concerns about Black. (Daily News)
• New Yorkers shouldn’t have to wait while Black gets up to speed, Josh Greenman writes. (Daily News)
• Bronx students have mixed opinions on Black’s business advice. (NY1)
• After six custodians were laid off, students say Lehman High School is a mess. (Daily News)
• Brooklyn students used radar guns to identify speeding outside their elementary school. (City Room)
• Maggie Gallagher says the solution to boys’ underachievement is to let boys be boys. (Post)