N.Y. Regents Oust Local Board, Take Over District
The state board of regents in New York last week ousted a local elected school board for the first time and took over the district's operations.
After a 15-hour hearing last week, the state board voted 9-0 to take over the troubled Roosevelt district on Long Island. A state-appointed panel will run the 2,600-student district until a new school board is elected in May.
State investigators in recent months have charged the five members of the local board with mismanaging finances, personnel, and facilities in the district and said that chaos rules the district's classrooms and instruction program. Roosevelt has been under the state's microscope since July, when it was forced to draw up a corrective-action plan. But, the regents ruled, the board failed to act to improve conditions...
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