Joel Klein, lousy manager from the beginning to the end
See this article in Capital about what a bad manager Joel Klein was...with lots of stories of screaming fights at Tweed.
It might make good gossip, but anyone paying any attention to our schools has known for a long time that Klein was a terrible manager, though the mainstream media seems to have paid little attention before now. The theory floated in the article is that everything was better before Kristen Kane left in 2007.
When [Kane] she left in 2007, Klein filled her position of chief operating officer, but no one took over her managerial responsibilities and the department suffered for it, a former official said.
“There really never was any high-level management coming out of Joel’s office without her, and certainly, she was never replaced,” said a former DOE official.
(Photo Anagnostopoulos replaced Kane as COO, though strangely, her name is never mentioned in the article. Photo is also the only top level DOE official to have quit, at least so far, since Cathie Black's appointment was