Cathleen Black Is Out as City Schools Chancellor

http://cityroom.blogs.nytimes.com/2011/04/07/cathie-black-is-out-as-chancellor/?emc=na

Cathleen Black, a magazine executive with no educational experience who was named New York City schools chancellor last fall, stepped down Thursday. She was featured in the documentary that we watched last week in class titled Waiting for Superman. She oversaw a majority of the educational programming in New York City. At the news conference, Mr. Bloomberg said he and Ms. Black had agreed that news about her handling of the school system had become overly distracting.
City Councilman Lewis Fidler , who represents Brooklyn, said Ms. Black’s tenure “was bad from the beginning,” adding, “It wasn’t properly vetted; it wasn’t properly thought out.” Ms. Black, he said, “didn’t have either a unique qualification in education or a unique ability as a communicator in the public sphere.” Somebody has to take the blame for a failing education system. In this case, Ms. Black took the brunt of it.