By Kat Stoeffel 11/12/10 8:54pm

Slideshow

Clifford the Big Red Dog for Chancellor of the Department of Education!

New York is still reeling from Mayor Bloomberg’s appointment of Cathie Black, chairwoman of Hearst magazines, to Chancellor of the City’s Department of Education. This morning Bloomberg attributed the decision to Black’s management skills, but his choice still raises more questions than it answers. Even if media executive experience translates to city government (as Read More

By Ricardo Bilton 11/11/10 8:23pm

Slideshow

The Education of Joel Klein

New York City Schools Chancellor Joel Klein’s eight-year tenure came to an end yesterday, and with it, understandably, came questions of his legacy. A product of the New York City public school system, Klien saw his appointment as a chance to give back to the system that created him. But his tenure was controversial, to Read More

By Michael Gonda 8/10/10 11:10pm

Editorial

Klein’s Welcome Stand

Decisions involving the allocation of public-school resources are seldom easy, even in the best of times. Resources are always finite, as parents know all too well. Schools Chancellor Joel Klein recently used emergency powers to overrule a state decision that would have stopped the expansion of a successful all-girls charter school on the Lower Read More

By Michael Gonda 7/27/10 9:02pm

Editorial

Classroom Accountability

It’s hard to know what future historians will say of New York City in the first half of the 21st century. But surely they will notice, and chronicle, the return of accountability in the city’s public schools. It has been less than a decade since the old Board of Education, a symbol of bureaucratic Read More