Business Leader Is Named Interim Chancellor in N.Y.C.
New York City school board members last week named a Manhattan business leader—rather than an educator—as interim chancellor of the nation's largest school system, two weeks after the board declined to renew Rudolph F. Crew's contract.
The school board chose Harold O. Levy, a Citigroup executive and a member of the state board of regents, over two candidates endorsed by Mayor Rudolph W. Giuliani. Mr. Levy's appointment hinges on the state education commissioner's waiving a requirement that local schools chiefs in New York hold education administrator credentials.
Mr. Levy, who is 47, said in a statement that he grew to care about the state of New York City's schools when he chaired the Commission on School Facilities and Maintenance Reform, a panel that studied the deterioration of city school buildings and came to be known...
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