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Originally Posted by GarthB
A clarification:
Just got off the phone. The NYC board of ed has been renamed the NYC department of education. The mayor continues to appoint its leadership. According to a close friend who works within the system, there is constant "interference" from the city, which indeed can and has passed ordinances to regulate the department.
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To regulate the
dept.? Or to regulate the schools directly? My understanding is that they can't make the dept. do anything, but they can simply go around the dept., "interfering" by making their own ordinances re school operations. That is, they have concurrent jurisdiction over schools.
Does the NYC chancellor now serve at the pleasure of the mayor? ISTR Giuliani as having wanted that.
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[Garth B's friend] believes the goal of the bat legislation was to bring the schools into line. He predicts no attempt will be made to force organizations outside of their control to abide by it.
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Does the ordinance then only require that public high schools in the city
supply only wood bats? Or is it an ordinance forbidding metal bats to be
used in any HS in the city, including private schools? Or something in between?
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In most areas school districts are governmental entities within themselves and have their own taxing district and an independently elected board which hires a superintendent.
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NY's education law is really complicated. From some time in the 1960s to some time in the 1990s, in addition to the appointed citywide board (which goes back to the 19th C.) NYC had community school bds. that were elected (by a different voting system than used in most of the state) but did not have taxing power.
Because NY got into this game so early, the public schools are governed by an enormous range of boards of different sizes, and over all of them are the Regents, who also have jurisdiction over the state's colleges plus a variety of matters that are tangentially related to education by virtue of being professions of educated people. This results in such things as pharmacies being under the concurrent jurisdiction of the state's education and health depts.
Robert