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 Hacksaw and Bonecrusher are the sort of nicknames 
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 that the next group of tough guys 
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carrying around reputations like that
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 would be school superintendents?
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 Chicago's new school chief is the hard-nosed Ted Kimbrough.
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 At his old job in Compton, Calif., he took a bitter teachers' strike 
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and nearly came to blows with a school-board member.
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 At his first Chicago press conference, he berated the reporters.
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 In New York City, the new Chancellor, Joseph Fernandez, has landed like a 16-inch shell in the middle of a system 
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that has been impervious to serious reform. 
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 Both men fit the mood of the times 
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-- the mood being one of a public 
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fed up with officials' rationalizations 
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for why their schools don't work.
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 Former Patterson, N.J., principal Joe Clark was no doubt the general public's first experience with this new breed of no-nonsense administrator.
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 The subject of the movie Lean on Me, Mr. Clark controlled his school with a bullhorn and a baseball bat.
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 He may have gone overboard in his pursuit of good discipline, 
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but isn't it interesting that some of the country's biggest, most troubled school districts are choosing new chiefs from the same gravel-chewing mold?
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 Elena Scambio, the woman 
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assigned to run the Jersey City school system 
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that was taken over by the state, 
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says 
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her top priority will be to cut through the dead hand of bureaucracy.
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 Mr. Fernandez doesn't take control in New York until January, 
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but already he's roiling the waters.
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 He's attacked the concept of building tenure, one of the most disgraceful institutions in American public schools.
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 It means it is virtually impossible to fire or even transfer incompetent principals.
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 Once they are in the building, 
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they stay.
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 One South Bronx principal kept his job for 16 years, 
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despite a serious drinking problem and rarely showing up for work.
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 He was finally given leave 
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when he was arrested for allegedly buying crack.
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 Naturally, the principals' union loves building tenure, 
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and tenure has withstood previous challenge.
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 We suggest 
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that Mr. Fernandez find an incompetent principal, 
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toss him out of the building 
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and let the forces of the status quo explain to the parents 
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whatever it is 
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they're defending.
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 In his old job, as Dade County chief, Mr. Fernandez forced out 92 teachers and reshuffled 48 principals.
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 He cut the dropout rate by 5.5%.
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 But the no-more-nonsense superintendents are going to have to be judicious as well; 
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incompetent principals and administrators should go,
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 but the good ones ought to be left alone.
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 The situation will be especially delicate for Mr. Kimbrough. 
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He takes over a school system in the midst of radical reform.
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 Chicagoans have just elected 540 neophyte school boards, one for each school.
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 This of course led to disaster in New York City.
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 Getting a community of parents to care again about its schools is essential, 
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but in Chicago the new boards will make mistakes 
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and Mr. Kimbrough will have to identify them.
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 The rise of superintendents such as Joseph Fernandez and Ted Kimbrough suggests plainly the process of disintegration in many school systems.
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 The schools' central mission, educating children, became subsumed by the competing interests of bureaucrats, politicians and unions.
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 The classroom itself operated on the periphery of this awful system, 
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discipline collapsed, 
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and kids stopped learning.
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 Mr. Chips was a nice fellow, 
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and maybe some day he'll return.
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 Until then, it's clear that some of the people 
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who've been keeping big-city schools down 
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are going to be dealing with the Terminator.
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