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13 unusual facts about New York City Department of Education


Carmen Fariña

Carmen Fariña (Galicia, 1942) is the current New York City Schools Chancellor, the head of the New York City Department of Education.

David S. Rose

Rose attended New York City public schools and Horace Mann High School.

Dennis Walcott

Dennis M. Walcott (born September 7, 1951) was the Chancellor of the New York City Department of Education.

Gwyndolen Clarke-Reed

She then attended Adelphi University, graduating with a Master's degree in 1979, at which point she began working for the New York City Department of Education as a teacher.

Jean-Claude Brizard

In 2003 he rose to the instructional superintendency of Region 8, New York City Department of Education.

He started his career as a teacher, then an administrator, in the New York School System.

Jerald Posman

He has been in charge of vast operations as Deputy Chancellor of the New York City School System and been involved in the most shoestring entrepreneurial ventures.

Judith D. Zuk

Another of her projects was a new high school dedicated to environmental issues, which she realized with the help of the administration of adjoining Prospect Park and The New York City Department of Education.

Knowre

In May 2013, KnowRe won first place in the Gap App Challenge sponsored by the New York City Department of Education.

Raymond W. McDaniel Jr.

McDaniel joined the board of directors of the Council for Economic Education (then the National Council on Economic Education) in 2003, and has helped expand its workshops in New York City public schools.

Stuyvesant Heights, Brooklyn

In 1968, Ocean Hill and neighboring Brownsville experienced the worst teacher strike in history when the central Board of Education gave the community board neighborhood control.

Tarsha Vega

Vega was born in The Bronx, New York, the only child of a single mother who worked for the New York City Department of Education.

Tito Muñoz

Born in Flushing, Queens, Muñoz first studied music in the New York City Public School System, where he took up violin at the Louis Armstrong Middle School.


Shimon Waronker

Waronker was awarded the French Ordre des Palmes Académiques on October 20, 2009, and was knighted by French Ambassador Pierre Vimont at the Tweed Courthouse, headquarters of the New York City Department of Education.