Comments on: Critics say DOE is overselling chaos of mayoral control expiration http://gothamschools.org/2009/06/26/critics-say-doe-is-overselling-chaos-of-mayoral-control-expiration/ Sat, 20 Mar 2010 12:50:23 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.7 hourly 1 By: Ellen McHugh http://gothamschools.org/2009/06/26/critics-say-doe-is-overselling-chaos-of-mayoral-control-expiration/comment-page-1/#comment-140928 Ellen McHugh Fri, 26 Jun 2009 19:49:30 +0000 http://gothamschools.org/?p=17452#comment-140928 The 1996 rewrite of the BOE responsibilities gave the Chancellor the right to appoint superintendents and the BOE always had the right to appoint trustees. All of the partisan fanatics on both sides need to get over themselves and get to the business of teaching not howling at each other...or am I talking about the Senate? The 1996 rewrite of the BOE responsibilities gave the Chancellor the right to appoint superintendents and the BOE always had the right to appoint trustees. All of the partisan fanatics on both sides need to get over themselves and get to the business of teaching not howling at each other…or am I talking about the Senate?

]]> By: Michael M. http://gothamschools.org/2009/06/26/critics-say-doe-is-overselling-chaos-of-mayoral-control-expiration/comment-page-1/#comment-140884 Michael M. Fri, 26 Jun 2009 17:16:58 +0000 http://gothamschools.org/?p=17452#comment-140884 Again, irony is alive and well at Tweed. Add City Hall. Re "“There is a real possibility that there will be no community superintendents after June 30,” the memo states.": Note that well prior to the NYS Senate meltdown, Tweed long ago banished the community (district) superintendents to far corners of the city from their home districts to serve as Senior Achievement Facilitators, and farmed out the role of superintendent to School Support Networks. Again, irony is alive and well at Tweed. Add City Hall.

Re ““There is a real possibility that there will be no community superintendents after June 30,” the memo states.”:

Note that well prior to the NYS Senate meltdown, Tweed long ago banished the community (district) superintendents to far corners of the city from their home districts to serve as Senior Achievement Facilitators, and farmed out the role of superintendent to School Support Networks.

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