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Poll: Voters sour on Bloomberg’s schools chancellor pick
- 11-23-2010
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Blog by Michael Howard Saul/Wall Street Journal
A majority of New York City voters believe Cathie Black, the magazine executive tapped by Mayor Michael Bloomberg to be the city’s next chancellor, lacks the right kind of experience to lead the nation’s largest school system, a poll released Tuesday revealed. Nearly two-thirds of city voters believe the schools chancellor needs education experience more than management experience, the poll from the Quinnipiac University Polling Institute showed. Black, currently chairwoman of Hearst Magazines, needs a waiver from the state education commissioner to become chancellor because she lacks both education credentials and experience. An advisory panel to David Steiner, the state’s education commissioner, is scheduled to consider Black’s selection on Tuesday and could make its nonbinding recommendation by day’s end. Steiner has sole discretion over whether to grant the waiver. The poll showed 47% of voters citywide disapprove of Bloomberg’s appointment of Black, with 29% supporting the selection and 25% saying they are undecided. (more…)
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