"Superintendents work today for two masters," Joseph Kovaly, superintendent of District 11 in the northern Bronx, said recently, addressing a group of business leaders.
Dr. Lyles said that among other things, she had asked Mr. Klein about his plan to have the district superintendents work out of the Tweed Courthouse, the building next to City Hall where the central school administration will soon be housed.
For many golf course superintendents, working dogs are as essential as the lawn mowers and the sprinklers.
Several of them were high-school principals or superintendents, working in different parts of the South, the Southwest, and the Far West.
Mr. Colombani is enrolled in some courses at the union — alarms, carpentry and locksmithing — that could lead to superintendent work.
Ms. Smith, a librarian at New York University, does some part-time superintendent work for her landlord in exchange for a discount on the rent.
A Dennis H. Greenstein, a Manhattan co-op and condominium lawyer, said that a superintendent working on his own time in a unit at the request of the unit's owner would be regarded as an independent contractor.
Arnab Ghosh, a police superintendent working on the case, told AFP at least two of the men appeared armed, and the rest carried tools with which to carry out the burglary.
In Rye, Edward J. Shine, the superintendent, worked with William R. Connors, the police commissioner, on a letter sent to the district's parents, explaining the steps children should take if they are approached by strangers.
Mr. Levy is also relying heavily on the 32 district superintendents to work on instructional programs, more so than Dr. Crew and other former chancellors did.
"During the height of the storm, we were concerned that schools were going to contemplate early dismissal, and we wanted to remind superintendents to work with local law enforcement to determine which roads were open and passable and which were not," said Anthony W. Sutton, commissioner of the county Emergency Services Department.
