A fresh 'Chance' for city schools

New York Post Saturday 9th April, 2011

What a difference a day makes. Incoming city Schools Chancellor Dennis Walcott yesterday started his first full day on the job dropping his grandson off at a Queens elementary school, deftly handling the press and then comfortably carrying the torch for the administration in which he's served for nine years. "I don't want him to be late on my first day," Walcott quipped to reporters as he dropped off grandson Justin, a second-grader at PS 36 in St. Albans. And in contrast to Mayor Bloomberg's woeful selection of former magazine executive Cathie Black for chancellor, the mayor had little trouble selling Walcott's credentials in a letter he sent yesterday to state Education Department Commissioner David Steiner seeking a waiver.

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