The time is ripe to eliminate tenure for principals and to abolish the Board of Examiners.
He would like to abolish the Board of Education and run the show himself.
This resulted in the decision to abolish the Board and replace it with a directly-elected council.
He has also expressed support for proposals to abolish the Board of Regents and to give the governor greater control over educational policy.
The second reform is to abolish the Board of Examiners.
But his prescription - abolishing the central Board of Education and creating five borough boards - would create new problems to replace the old.
The mayor also believes that if he abolishes the Board of Education, more teachers would want to work here despite the low salary.
But when the 1989 charter revision abolished the Board of Estimate, the boards lost power.
When he needed the Governor to support his plan to abolish the Board of Education, he got that, too.
In 1961 the provincial government allowed cities with more than 100,000 people to abolish the Board of Control.
