NY Mag: Bloomberg pushed Klein out before he was ready to go
When Chancellor Joel Klein suddenly announced his resignation a year ago tomorrow, speculation immediately mounted that he had been pushed out.
But Klein insisted that he had chosen to leave the Department of Education and said Mayor Bloomberg had asked him to stay on.
Now, new details tucked into a New York Magazine profile of Rupert Murdoch’s daughter Elisabeth seem to confirm that Bloomberg set the timeline for Klein’s departure — and suggest that Klein’s decision to head to Murdoch’s News Corporation was hastily made.
From the article:
On Sunday morning, November 7, 2010, Michael Bloomberg called Klein and told him that he
