Although liberal and socialist ideas were discussed and even practiced in experimental schools the main features of the era were the continued systematization of education, which had progressed in Prussia from 1763, and the class-based division of schools.
Mr. Kozloff accepts this division of schools and argues that images of New York by Jewish photographers during the middle of the century tend to reveal a unique "social tension," which is usually not found in the work of their non-Jewish colleagues.
"It's really a terrible situation because it doesn't give stability to the schools," said Patricia Zedalis, the chief executive of the board's division of school facilities.
Representatives from the board's division of school facilities meet regularly with executives from the School Construction Authority to review the status of construction projects.
Patricia Zedalis, chief executive of the board's division of school facilities, said that accelerating the boiler replacement program would require shifting some renovation projects to a lower priority.
A spokeswoman for Mr. Levy said that Patricia Zedalis, whose resignation Mr. Levy had asked for this week, was fired yesterday as chief executive of the division of school facilities.
"In a robust economy, there are plenty of other people who want the same sites we do," said Patricia Zedalis, chief executive of the board's division of school facilities, which is responsible for finding places to put new schools.
Schools Chancellor Harold O. Levy yesterday appointed Rudolph J. Rinaldi, a construction industry consultant who formerly served as the top construction official for New York State and New York City, to oversee Mr. Levy's proposed reorganization of the Board of Education's division of school facilities.
According to projections by the board's division of school facilities, by 2004 the Bronx will be at 131percentt of capacity and Queens at 122 percent, even with the scheduled school additions.
Last fall, Mr. Bloomberg and Mr. Klein announced plans to merge the School Construction Authority and the City Department of Education's division of school facilities, saying that infighting between the agencies often increased the cost of projects and discouraged companies from bidding for school jobs.
He took an initial step last week, when he proposed taking the responsibility for building schools away from the Board of Education and fired Patricia Zedalis, the head of the division of school facilities.
