The anti-manager: Joel Klein was lots of things Cathie Black isn't:
For better or worse, incoming New York City schools chancellor Cathie Black is no Joel Klein.
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The anti-manager: Joel Klein was lots of things Cathie Black isn't
More than a month after shocking the city with news of her appointment as the next schools chancellor, Hearst executive Cathleen Black is still trying to calm people down. Her inexperience in the world of public schooling—she attended parochial schools, sent her kids to private ones, and has never shown any passion for education—is not an issue, she and the mayor maintain, because the job is above all about having the ability to run things. More
Posted on December 16th, 2010 11:15am
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