People in education, who knew that this was coming along with the expiration of federal stimulus money for education and state budget cuts, didn't want the job of presiding over the re-decline of the NYC schools. When Bloomberg said that if Black didn't get the job no one else would take it, he apparently wasn't just making it up.
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