(2007-04-20) Nyc Principals To Pick Their Network

Schools Chancellor Joel Klein unveiled new details yesterday about how the city school system will be organized once the 10 regional superintendent offices are abolished in September as part of the Mike Bloomberg administration's latest restructuring of the bureaucracy. (Educating Kids In Nyc) 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. Principals will have greater accountability to go with their power.