Carmen Farina, an unofficial de Blasio adviser, topping list for education chief

[hrmjustin]

By Rachel Monahan / NEW YORK DAILY NEWS

Carmen Farina, a former deputy city schools chancellor, has emerged as a leading contender for the top education job, the Daily News has learned.

Farina — an unofficial yet key education adviser to Mayor-elect Bill de Blasio — has repeatedly denied a willingness to return from retirement. This week she’s made the slight shift of refusing to answer a reporter’s questions about whether she’d consider the post.

No decision has been made yet, sources and the transition team said.

“Mayor-elect de Blasio is reviewing candidates for chancellor,” said transition spokeswoman Lis Smith. “When he makes his decision, he will announce it.”


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[Smarmie Doofus]

1. "Obama Administration Heavyweights"? There are education "heavyweights" in the Obama Administration?

>>>>Montgomery County Superintendent Joshua Starr has been mentioned, but may have Obama administration heavyweights lobbying de Blasio not to consider him because of his strong anti-testing positions, sources said.>>>>>>>>

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I can't think of *anyone*.

[hrmjustin]

4. I don't follow this as much as you so my question to you is who would you like to see

get the job.

[Smarmie Doofus]

6. Ooops. Replied to wrong post. See #5. n/t

[Smarmie Doofus]

5. Joshua Starr sounds good for starters. If the hacks and numbskulls at US DOE don't want him.....

... that says a lot right there. Supposedly Starr's on record as opposing the closing and privatizing of PSs.... centerpiece of Bush/Obama era market-based ed "reform".

De Blasio campaigned explicitly in opposition to closing schools and in favor capping charters. Sounds like the $$$ people that pull the strings at Duncan's US DOE are already trying to corrupt him.

I'm counting on de Blasio to tell em to fuck-off. If he doesn't, all of NYC... including Big Bill..... are gonna have a loooooooong next 4 years.

[Squinch]

2. In my dreams, it is Diane Ravitch.

But in my dreams I am also a millionaire, who owns a mansion and a yacht.

[hrmjustin]

3. I would settle fow a quarter of a million dollars.

[Squinch]

7. I'd just settle for not having to wait another 5 years for a raise!

[hrmjustin]

8. Good point.