By SARAH GARLAND

The New York Sun
December 27, 2006 Wednesday
City Schools Try To Replicate a Successful Formula
BYLINE: SARAH GARLAND -, Staff Reporter of the Sun
SECTION: NEW YORK; Pg. 1

City Schools Try to Replicate a Successful Formula

Mayor Bloomberg and Schools Chancellor Joel Klein have made leadership the centerpiece of their education strategy, with mayoral control the focus at the city level. At the school level, an intense effort to train new principals in the mayor’s Leadership Academy has been combined with the introduction of empowerment schools.
So far, many parent leaders say, their approach has left out an essential ingredient.
“When the history of this administration is written, historians will note that the stakeholders of the school system - parents and teachers - were left out of the critical policy decision making,” the president of the Chancellor’s Parent Advisory Council, Timothy Johnson, said.