In many schools, the wait-and-see approach has left principals and teachers on edge — at one school in Queens, a teacher broke into tears inside the lunchroom last week.
Ms. Levy also criticized Mr. Klein's overall handling of the school system throughout the past year, saying that his and Mayor Michael R. Bloomberg's efforts to reorganize it had left principals feeling overwhelmed and underappreciated.
The council, however, said that, like many education schools, the University of Vermont's did not meet its standards because it left principals too big a role in choosing cooperating teachers, and did not do enough to ensure that they are effective teachers who will be good mentors.
This spring CPS introduced a budgeting system tying school money to student enrollment, a move that has ultimately left principals with pinched budgets -- and fewer employees, from teachers to cafeteria workers.
Behind the scenes Germany has been pushing for Greece to "reprofile" its debt a soft form of restructuring that would leave principal and coupon payments intact but extend bond maturities.
But schools built with young teachers are now in line to lose many of them, leaving principals with stark choices.
Meanwhile, newly savvy parents have seized on obscure passages in special-education law to wring additional services for their children, leaving principals buried in thick binders of federal and state statutes like beleaguered young lawyers.
Limiting temporary care jobs to two months ensures that more custodians get to share in the plum assignments, but leaves principals struggling to deal with the disruption of having as many as six custodians in a year.
This arbitrage can form the basis of a financial firm that could leave principals and agents pleased for years, even decades.
In 2011, Michele Wiles left her principal position at American Ballet Theater to found Ballet Next with the former New York City Ballet principal Charles Askegard.
