Mr. Berman has been endorsed by former Mayor Edward I. Koch, as well as by three former schools chancellors: Rudy Crew, Joseph A. Fernandez and Frank J. Macchiarola.
This was one of the four main pledges on which the Lib Dems fought the general election, and as a former schools spokesman for the party I was particularly pleased and proud to see the delivery of this promise.
She said he had continued to be appointed because he brought the perspective of the business community, as well as experience as a former school board member and federal policy maker.
As Mr. Librera, a former schools superintendent in Montclair, admitted in an interview last week, he is hardly a Trenton insider.
Major figures such as former D.C. schools chancellor Michelle Rhee and former New York City schools chancellor Joel Klein have pressed for tougher teacher evaluations and an end to "last in, first out" hiring practices that are part of many union contracts.
The signers include a wide array of education and public policy experts, scholars, children's advocates, civil rights figures, as well as current and former school superintendents, and a Nobel Prize winner in economics.
To the Sports Editor: As a former school nurse and health educator at a boys school, I often used Mariano Rivera as an example.
Those looking for good food need not make their way back to the city centre, as the former school gymnasium now hosts the restaurant with an open kitchen.
Entidhar, as a former school principal in Iraq, was a government employee, which required her to be a member of the Baath Party.
Ms Phillips was attending the opening ceremony as her former school, Millbrook in Southampton was converted into one of Education Secretary Michael Gove's flagship academies and renamed Lord's Hill.
