"The guys love to be kept busy," said Sheryl Butler, who as the deputy superintendent for programming is in charge of bringing educational classes, vocational training and other programs to the inmates.
Republicans pledged to create a new formula, one that emphasized outcomes and student achievement over ''Suburbans for superintendents'' — Suburban-driving superintendents being, in Kansas at least, the 21st-century equivalent of Ronald Reagan's Cadillac-driving welfare queens.
The charges, she said, were part of a "witch hunt" designed to shift the balance of the school board so that Ms. Santiago, who has been acting superintendent for two years, could be nominated officially by the board's majority.
I found Dr. Stoller, who told me that the assistant superintendent for human resources was expecting me at the administration building and that a telephone interview with Dr. Tassone had already been scheduled.
Sharon Cuseo, assistant superintendent for Burbank Unified, was unavailable to comment on the high school exit exam, but a Glendale school official said the exam was based on former English and math standards, and tested students' proficiency in those content areas.
They report to the assistant superintendent for instruction and are responsible for creating and overseeing coordinated instruction programs from kindergarten through the 12th grade.
Mr. Hammel, a superintendent for the Schiavone Construction Company, was working on a project to renovate the Atlantic Avenue subway station when a northbound Q train at Atlantic and Flatbush Avenues entered his work area at 1 40 a.m.
"The assumption should be that the law requiring specific training for superintendents should be followed except for unusual cases, that rare candidate who does not fulfill all the detailed requirements, but yet who obviously is qualified for the job," said Joseph P. Viteritti, a public policy professor at Hunter College.
"We had planned to be finished June 15," said Dr. Judith Fox, Byram Hills district superintendent, who was preparing for interviews with prospective candidates in early August for positions in music, languages and physics.
An Indiana school superintendent who was arrested for allegedly using her own health insurance to purchase medicine for a sick, uninsured student, has resigned.
