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Sunday, November 14, 2010

The "How To Be a Chancellor In NYC" Curriculum For Cathie Black NYC Rubber Room Reporter

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The "How To Be a Chancellor In NYC" Curriculum For Cathie Black

Mayor Bloomberg has made it very clear in the almost nine years he has been Mayor of New York City that he believes in "The Business Model" for public schools. Supporters of his agenda and the consequences for New York public schools is in the data, on this blog, my website, hundreds of other blogs and in thousands of internet articles around the globe (Joel Klein even duped Australia, remember? See article below from Sydney) . At least in NYC we can say that this model has been a failure. We can even say that the Bloomberg/Klein administration has ended up being the biggest disaster in the history of public school systems, but maybe I'm getting carried away.

More about that in another article.

Here, my purpose is to post an article in Crain's New York Business that tells us that the almost-chancellor Cathie Black (she still needs a waiver) is being taught about chancellorship, and to suggest a 2-day curriculum for her to learn exactly what