NEW YORK -- The outcome of Tuesday's mayoral election may be largely a foregone conclusion, as Public Advocate Bill de Blasio (D) is expected to trounce former transit director Joe Lhota (R). But major questions still hang over certain aspects of an impending de Blasio administration, among the more notable of these: Who will he put in charge of the nation's largest school district?
Many a New York publication has compiled its list of potential chancellors, who have ranged from the former leader of Baltimore's public schools to the current head of a school district in Maryland who has resisted increased standardized testing.
In the days leading up to the election, though, a new name trickled out of the rumor mill. Earlier this week, Page Six of the New York Post ran an item saying that de Blasio was "considering hiring teachers' union boss Randi Weingarten as the next NYC schools chancellor." A source told columnist Richard Johnson that "she wants the job."
Weingarten served as head of the city's United Federation of Teachers union before