Cathie Black, Publishing Executive, to Replace Joel I. Klein as New York City Schools Chancellor
Schools Chancellor Joel I. Klein is resigning and leaving
city government and will be replaced by Cathie Black, the
former publisher of USA Today and chairwoman of Hearst
Magazines, Mayor Michael R. Bloomberg announced this
afternoon. Mr. Klein, in turn, will become the executive vice
president of the News Corporation.
The mayor called Ms. Black "a superstar manager" and added,
"There's no one who knows more about the skills our children
will need to succeed in the 21st-century economy."
The mayor lauded Mr. Klein for taking a "dysfunctional"
system and turning it into "one that the Obama administration
has hailed as a national model."
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