Mayor Bloomberg fought for a few months to keep his ill-fated schools chancellor Cathie Black in office. But he fought for two years to keep internal e-mails about her hidden.
And boy is it clear why.
Black was a publishing exec with no experience in education. When she was appointed chancellor, she didn't take a crash course on public schools or even visit shrines to Maria Montessori.
Instead, she dreamed of Oprah.
The e-mails were released Thursday under court order following a long and bitter lawsuit. They cover the first 10 days after Bloomberg announced Black as the new CEO of city schools in November 2010.
Because she had no background in education, Black needed a waiver from state authorities to ease her into office. The result was a bizarre PR campaign hatched by a coterie of top city officials to get prominent women to back Black.
They courted celebrities such as fashion designers Donna Karan and Diane von Furstenberg. They tried Caroline Kennedy, who wisely didn't respond. "Would we want ivanka trump?" wondered Black in one e-mail. The jewel in the crown was Oprah, who sang Black's praises in a newspaper interview and sealed the deal.
Ivanka, Oprah, DKNY — these are the stars of the supermarket check-out counter. Yet their sign-on was the priority of the woman in charge of our public schools. And she was appointed by a mayor who campaigned on mayoral control.
The city's lawyers argued that revealing these embarrassing e-mails would discourage people from public service. If that means no more Cathie Blacks, it's the best news we've heard all week.
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