Rabbi Siegel was originally the school's principal, but he hired someone else after people said it was inappropriate for a rabbi to oversee instruction.
If the appellate court rules in favor of Newark's school board, the state would continue to oversee instruction, but the nine board members could start to regain budgetary and policy-making powers, including the hiring — and firing — of superintendents.
Sydney Smith, a vice principal who oversees instruction at the school, said she had heard only minimal grumbling from students excluded from electives.
This manager and I had been introduced the year before, when his job (like Tom's) was overseeing instruction for the Cubs' minor leaguers.
There are 32 district superintendents, one for each community school district, as well as 6 high school superintendents and 6 others overseeing instruction and special education.
"To put it very simply," he said, "how do you know that the kids are learning?" In 2004, Mr. Nadelstern made him his deputy in the Office of New Schools, and Mr. Polakow-Suransky moved on to become chief academic officer and a deputy chancellor overseeing instruction before becoming chief accountability officer in 2009.
They report to the assistant superintendent for instruction and are responsible for creating and overseeing coordinated instruction programs from kindergarten through the 12th grade.
With independence the task of overseeing public instruction fell to the state and local authorities.
"The soldiers trained are able to ask about things not in their books," said Daryl Youngman, an associate professor at the university who oversees the instruction.
After overseeing all instruction in New York City schools as deputy chancellor, Dr. Minter held high posts for 12 years at Lehman College in the Bronx and briefly was president of York College in South Jamaica, Queens, in 1995.
And it would be impractical to introduce light-weaponry override systems in their current form for large numbers of soldiers or police, says Richard Rowe, a retired US Army major-general who oversaw the instruction and equipping of 550,000 Iraqi security recruits.Even with further technological advances, few armies will be eager to adopt such kit, Mr Kalbusch says.
