Poll: Chancellor Black has far to go to win back public
A Marist College poll released this evening shows that new Schools Chancellor Cathie Black has less public support than her predecessor, Joel Klein, did when he took the job eight years ago.
Current poll results show that 21 percent of registered New York City voters think that Black has done a good or excellent job of handling of the public schools. When Quinnipiac University first surveyed the public on Klein in 2003, a month after he took office, its results showed that 46 percent of New Yorkers approved of him.
The two sets of poll numbers aren’t a perfect comparison, as the Marist poll found that 35 percent of New
Rise & Shine: Cuomo sympathetic to ‘last in, first out’ critiques
- Gov. Cuomo made comments that imply sympathy to calls for changing seniority layoff rules. (Post)
- The Panel for Educational Policy voted to close 12 more schools. (GS, Times, DN, Post, NY1, WSJ)
- Parents are pushing for more comprehensive action on the presence of PCBs in schools. (Times)
- The principal of Staten Island’s PS 30 threatened to fine teachers who were late due to weather. (Post)
- The television show “Glee” has drawn new voices to youth choirs. (Times)
- California parents moved one step closer to converting their school into a charter school. (L.A. Times)
- Both sides in the education war are right, and both can be unfair, a columnist says. (Washington Post)
- A conflict with chef Jamie Oliver caused Los Angeles to bar reality TV shoots in schools. (L.A. Times)
- Ed tech types say Joel Klein’s NewsCorp endeavor is hardly assured success. (EdWeek)