That Was Fast: Former Hearst Exec Cathie Black Stepping Down As NYC Schools Chancellor

by Mark Joyella | 10:51 am, April 7th, 2011

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Cathie Black, the former Hearst Magazines chairman chosen by New York Mayor Michael Bloomberg as schools chancellor last year, is out, to be replaced by Dennis Walcott, according to multiple reports. Walcott is the Deputy Mayor for Education and Community Development.

Black, who this week was found by a Marist College poll to have just a 17 percent approval rating among city residents, has been a lightning rod in the city. The survey showed that only 2 percent rate Black’s job performance as “excellent,” while 15 percent grade her as “good.” Among the rest, 34 percent rate her “fair,” 27 percent “poor” and 23 percent reserved opinion. Black got a 21 percent approval rating in February, the poll said.

Just yesterday, Deputy Chancellor John White, who heads the Division of Talent, Labor, and Innovation, was reported to be leaving to take a post in New Orleans. If true, he would be the second deputy chancellor to step down this week and the fourth since Cathie Black took office in the fall.

A news conference on the change is expected shortly. Developing.

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Barack Must Go

This is a blessing in diguise really. The full weight and might of the Republican hammer is about to fall on all the corrupt quid pro quo arrangement between the Obama administration / degenerate unions / lazy, gaming the system teachers and administrators throughout America. She had no idea when she signed up she was becoming the de facto leader of one of the largest, most notorious organized crime families in America.

I can’t wait to read her book when it comes out in the Fall.
Black and Gold Brad

NYC is hemorrhaging money hand over fist (as is all of New York State), but yet they have a Deputy Chancellor in charge of the Division of Talent, Labor and Innovation?!?

You see, we’ve always been at war with Eurasia…
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Barack Must Go said:
This is a blessing in diguise really. The full weight and might of the Republican hammer is about to fall on all the corrupt quid pro quo arrangement between the Obama administration / degenerate unions / lazy, gaming the system teachers and administrators throughout America. She had no idea when she signed up she was becoming the de facto leader of one of the largest, most notorious organized crime families in America.

I can’t wait to read her book when it comes out in the Fall.

What are you talking about? Being chancellor of the NYC school system and the teachers union are two completely different things. This had nothing to do with Obama or unions. Black was nominated because she was someone that had nothing to do with unions and she wouldn’t appease to them. Thats why Joel Klein was Chancellor before her and did an excellent job. And blessing? It is more of a victory for the teachers union because they were the main ones calling for this woman’s resignation.