Dennis M. Walcott, the candidate to be the next Chancellor of city schools, projected an air of confidence Friday, ensuring the municipal Council that schools have been able hands, despite the projected thousands of teacher layoffs.
"It will certainly be setbacks along the way, the difficulties and challenges," said Mr. Walcott, but I am confident that by working together, we come out stronger on the other side. ?
But Mr. Walcott will be only to manage budget cuts. On several fronts, people inside and outside of the report of the Ministry of education, the school system was drifting.
It inherits a huge agency, the largest of the city, and some of his problems date back years. But tenure unstable, short of its predecessor, Cathleen P. Black, at worse, said observers from education.
"Any person working on a plan for the last months of two and a half years has no assurance that, it could never be done rather than having simply dust come together," said Joe Williams, Executive Director of Democrats for education reformwho works closely with schools and education officials. The "having no not a leader makes wonder why they display every day in this bureaucratic blob giant."
"That they are trying to change the world, and they cannot do so when there is zero direction vessel."
Two aides of higher education has complained that Ms. Black, the absence of a clear program from the top began to create inefficiencies in the Department. His predecessor, Joel i. Klein, loved make decisions fast and energetic. According to Ms. Black, proposals may wander through the layers of control: Ms. Black, his two powerful assistants and officials of the City Hall, including Mr. Walcott and another Deputy Mayor, Howard Wolfson.
In the confusion, several proposals have been delayed, including efforts to obtain grants for school improvement. Assistants speak on condition of anonymity because the Mayor requested that agents to past criticism of Ms. Black tenure. To obtain a response to it on Friday night for their remarks failed.
Some officials worried that the momentum of the reform programme of Mr. Klein, including her push to rid the system of teachers mid-March, began to falter. Without the presence of Eric Nadelstern, a Deputy Chancellor, who is retiring after the appointment of Ms. Black, the Department seemed more in more familiar with the needs of each school.
Ms. Black often deferred to Shael Polakow-Suransky, the academic Director and Sharon Greenberger, the Chief of operations, giving them power that education officials joke called "Chancellor", said the two aid.
Meetings have been fraught with manoeuvres of senior officials tried to move Ms. Black to their point of view, said wizards. Mr. Polakow-Suransky and Ms. Greenberger served as guards, decide which proposals to approve and which to scuttle.
Mr. Polakow-Suransky, acting Chancellor until Mr. Walcott receives a waiver, expressed his disagreement on Friday with those who complain that the Ministry had lost its moorings. "There were frustrating moments, and there have been ups and downs,", said Mr. Polakow-Suransky of recent months. There is also, he said, "real excitement and a sense of possibility."
"People are working hard on many different fronts," he continued. "The fact that Dennis has resumed, which will only add."
A school in limbo, the cobble Hill School of American Studies at Brooklyn, was supposed to be improved now. It is part of the program of President Obama turn around schools, and the city of New York is considered a national urban districts model. But when the examiners of the State is made in January, they stated that "the evidence of teaching and learning was not apparent in the majority of the classrooms.
The lack of progress in school is the result of many factors, but one is the slow pace of the city in the application of federal money shift and hiring personnel to operate.
"There is fighting every day," said Naya Hunt, 16, an 11th grader, the dismissal Friday. "" "". "It was a fight only today, before leaving school".
A man police said was not a student, was led handcuffed wrists shortly after. "It is crazy about it," she said.
While the State, city and union officials disagree on the cause of the slowdown, all agree that money did not start flowing in schools until January, too late to produce change.
"Some of the schools has decided, you know what?". "We're going it alone," said Michael Mulgrew, the President of the Federation of teachers. "No there was no support from the Ministry of education in these schools."
Juliet Linderman and Noah Rosenberg contributed reporting.
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