New York City school chancellor discusses reorganization of system

April 17, 2007
The city is eliminating the school system's 10 regional superintendent offices.

New York City Schools Chancellor Joel I. Klein has unveiled new details about how the city school system will be organized once the 10 regional superintendent offices are abolished in September. The reorganization is a sort of inversion of the city school administration. Instead of the traditional model in which principals work directly for a superintendent, each of the city’s more than 1,400 principals will choose a “school support organization” to work with their schools, and will pay these groups out of the school’s budget.

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