But she said it was understandable that teachers in such a complex school system would cling to their contract.
He has been placed in charge of the country's largest & most complex school system - 835 school buildings, 15 annexes, over 42,000 teachers, and over a million students.
Gov. George E. Pataki plans to appeal the decision, which scrapped the state's complex school aid formula, and the appeal could take more than a year.
In January 2001, Justice Leland DeGrasse of State Supreme Court in Manhattan ruled that the state had not met its constitutional obligation to provide "a sound, basic education" and that its complex school financing formulas were illegal.
But others see such conflict as unavoidable now that Mr. Levy is no longer Mr. Mills's fellow policy maker, but the chief executive of New York City's enormously complex school system.
In the Senate, Mrs. Goodhue, the chairwoman of the committee on child care, investigated violations at day care centers, delved into minutia of the state's complex school financing formulas, and introduced legislation regulating surrogate mothers.
Although Assembly Democrats said their opposition to removing the waiver requirement was philosophical -- they said it would be unfair to allow people with no education background to run the nation's largest, most complex school system -- it is also politically motivated.
There is no doubt that millions of Americans will see the movie and become aware of the complex school reform issues that many of us have tried to highlight for years.
But - particularly in big cities - Catholics run vast social service and educational complexes: schools, universities, hospitals, orphanages and nursing facilities.
Schools sang Mandela birthday ditties, assemblies were held, politicians elbowed each other out of the way and celebrities cut ribbons at new housing complexes, schools and crèches.
