By SARAH GARLAND

The New York Sun
October 27, 2006 Friday
Parents Finding School District Offices Nearly Empty
BYLINE: SARAH GARLAND -, Staff Reporter of the Sun
SECTION: NEW YORK; Pg. 1

District Offices Empty

Under a legal settlement reached last year, the city’s education department is spending more than $5 million a year to staff district offices, but in many cases parents looking for help at those offices would be wasting their time.
Visits by a reporter in the past two weeks to the 19 district offices situated apart from the regional offices disclosed that it was rare to find a community superintendent.