Credit Mayor Mike Bloomberg and Chancellor Joel I. Klein forimplementing an innovative education idea: giving parents thechance to grade their kids' schools. Earlier this year, the citygovernment sent the first "Learning Environment Survey" to 1.8million parents, students, and teachers in the public school systemto provide customer feedback.
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Mr. Banks, who founded the Eagle Academy, a network of public schools for boys, is the first commissioner named to Mayor-elect Eric Adams’s administration.