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...tall man in the dark double-breasted suit stood ramrod straight while Edward Koch introduced him at a city hall press conference. Then Richard R. Green, freshly appointed chancellor of the New York City school system, biggest (939,142 students) and arguably the baddest in all the land, said to the mayor, "Why don't you be seated?" Koch complied, like a schoolboy whom the principal has put in his place. And when His Honor tried later to rise, the Big Apple's new headmaster froze him with a turn of the hand...
...something else. Despite islands of excellence maintained by devoted principals and teachers, the system is a Balkanized wasteland that destroys rulers who would grapple with 32 autonomous districts and a $5.2 billion budget that evaporates with few observable results. "The dimensions of the system can be overwhelming," admits former Chancellor Nathan Quinones, who decided to give up last August. Says a high school teacher: "The three best things about the job are June, July and August...
...original August agreement gave UMass President David Knapp a $20,000 pay raise and Chancellor of the UMass Amherst campus Joseph Duffey a $15,000 raise...
Since his appointment, Lashman has presided over the selection of Franklyn Jenifer as the new chancellor. The board has also initiated a $1 billion capital improvements project and a new teacher training program. Jenifer has called some of the programs the board has worked on under Lashman's direction "radical in nature," but he said that the work is "designed to move higher education in Massachusetts to among the best in the nation...
Franklyn Jenifer, the new chancellor appointed by the regents, said that compared to other officials he has worked with, Lashman is "second to no one." He added, "He's been a very aggressive, articulate spokesman for higher education...