NY City mayor-elect names former teacher to lead schools

By way of Edith Honan NEW YORK (Reuters) – New York City's Mayor-select Bill de Blasio on Monday named Carmen Farina, a longtime trainer and administrator, as the subsequent chancellor of the nation's biggest public school device. Farina, 70, takes charge of a gadget with 1.2 million college students at a time when lengthy-simmering debates over instructor compensation and self-discipline and the situation of constitution schools in city training are coming to a head. Whereas outgoing Mayor Michael Bloomberg was once ceaselessly at odds with the United Federation of Teachers, whose participants were working with no contract on account that 2009, de Blasio has indicated he’ll take a extra collaborative method and backs offering retroactive pay increases in a brand new contract. Bloomberg had chosen three chancellors out of doors the occupation.