Schools Chancellor David Banks gave a searing critique of the Department of Education in an address Wednesday — and vowed to jolt the nation’s largest school system out of a $38 billion malai…
Forced to improvise his speech after a teleprompter malfunction, Banks said the DOE has delivered “completely dysfunctional” results despite the billions that roar through its coffers each year.DOE’s recent history.
He announced the elimination of DOE executive superintendents, a bureaucratic layer introduced by former schools chief Richard Carranza. Banks said he would strip away red tape that often frustrates innovative city principals and that effective programs should be scaled throughout the system. The chancellor stressed the need to make learning more relevant to kids by tying classwork to future job prospects.“The charter schools have done an amazing job of telling their story,” Banks said. “That’s why people are leaving the traditional public schools and going to private schools or going to charter schools.”
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