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What NYC schools need in the next schools chancellor

By Jenny Sedlis, Executive Director of StudentsFirstNY

With the news that Schools Chancellor Carmen Fariña is retiring, Mayor de Blasio says he is looking for a new chancellor to follow the blueprint he has laid out during his first four years in office. That would be a mistake.

Given the challenges our city schools continue to face, he’d be wise to look for someone willing to challenge his assumptions and chart a very different course.

Read the full oped in the New York Post.

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