More Mayors are proactively involved in education to improve the quality of life and as a long-term investment to turn cities around,"

New York Mayor Michael R. Bloomberg hails Evander Childs as an example of what is possible when a city’s chief executive takes a hands-on approach to school reform.

"The incrementalists and status-quo-ists are not going to get us where we need to go," Klein said. "The way it worked under the old structure, everybody’s for change, everybody wants to improve the school system, but a lot of people don’t like this change or that change because their ox is gored."

By David Nakamura
Washington Post Staff Writer

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