Cathie Black Confronted by a Mob of Angry Parents
Cathie Black must have known it wasn't going to be all sharpening pencils and flipping through textbooks, but she probably didn't imagine being Bloomberg's chancellor of schools would put her front and center for a verbal attack. Tonight at a hearing on the proposed closure of twelve Brooklyn schools, the former Hearst exec was verbally lambasted by a cadre of angry parents. Many of the nearly 1,800 attendees expressed their disappointment — quite loudly — by chanting "Cathie Black is wack" and "Black must go." Heckles and jeers were heard throughout the duration of Black's speech, and nearly the entire crowd walked out during the meeting in protest.Black's troubles started Tuesday night, when she was at odds with another angry group of parents and didn't handle it well. While trying to speak to the crowd at Tuesday's school-
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