Fernandez and His Battles: Can an Innovator Be Happy in New York?
Three years ago, Schools Chancellor Joseph A. Fernandez charged into New York City with a virtual mandate to rouse a slumbering system in which corruption, incompetence and mediocrity flourished. But after a breathtaking start in which Mr. Fernandez introduced such things as school-based management and drew attention for his dismissals of local school officials, he now finds himself with an increasingly angry and hostile board of directors who last week gave him a major rebuff. The seven-member Board of Education overruled his suspension of a local school board in Queens that refuses to adopt a 443-page multicultural curriculum, “Children of the Rainbow,” which contains several passages urging respect and appreciation for gay people. Although Mr. Fernandez’s detractors say he has brought on many of his troubles with an autocratic style, his recent troubles with the Board of Education have revived the question of whether New York City, with its intricate political, ethnic and religious
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