Frank Macchiarola was one of New York's most dedicated public servants, playing critical roles — most notably in the city schools — during an otherwise bleak period in the late '70s and early '80s.
He died yesterday at 71, after battling liver cancer.
As schools chancellor from 1978 to 1983, the Brooklyn-born Macchiarola was a no-nonsense, reform-minded crusader for standards and teacher safety — even in the face of huge budget cutbacks.
He replaced 60 of 110 high-school principals, ended social promotion and installed system-wide citizenship courses, aggressive policies that resulted in city reading and math scores outpacing the national average by his fourth year and violence against teachers plunging.
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Frank Macchiarola
He was also an early proponent of mayoral control of the schools.
Macchiarola became chancellor after excelling at an equally challenging task — deputy director of the Emergency Financial Control Board, which kept the city from fiscal collapse.
He would go on to serve as CEO of the New York City Partnership, panelist on the historic 1989 Charter Revision Commission, dean of Benjamin N. Cardozo School of Law at Yeshiva University and president of his alma mater, St. Francis College.
But Frank Macchiarola's vision and proficiency as chancellor set a standard that successors could only try to emulate.
Few succeeded. RIP.
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