1.   And from the often-voluble schools chancellor, Rudy Crew, there has been not a public word.

2.   Bernard Mecklowitz, a former city schools chancellor who teaches at the Bank Street College of Education, saw the film with his wife, a retired teacher.

3.   After calling upon legislators to abolish principal tenure in the first months of his own tenure, the schools chancellor has more recently grown silent on the topic.

4.   But he stopped short of a takeover in the end, allowing the New York City schools chancellor, Rudy Crew, to intervene and reorganize the schools himself.

5.   But Parsons is far more than the latest political exile of a mayor well known for turning out a police commissioner and schools chancellor.

6.   But the schools chancellor has opposed the mayor, maintaining that safety officers must report directly to the principal of the school to which they are assigned.

7.   But under the new law, the schools chancellor would choose and hire superintendents from lists offered by the school boards.

8.   Community school boards would have to endorse the changes, and the schools chancellor would have to approve them.

9.   Cortines, the schools chancellor, decided that what some bright Hispanic and African-American children lacked in their daily lives was a support system that nurtures achievement.

10.   Dickerson, who met with school chancellor Bill Stacey on Monday, spent the last seven years as associate head coach.