Talk:New York City Schools Chancellor

current Chancellor
Cathie Black is not yet the current Chancellor, Joe Klein is in office until December 31. Barndoorsentry (talk) 13:07, 10 November 2010 (UTC)

"School" or "Schools"?
I (a long-time listener to New York City radio news broadcasts, though I don't live there) have always heard this position referred to as "schools chancellor", with an "s" at the end of "schools." Wikipedia, however, refers to this position as "School Chancellor", with no "s". (And with both words capitalized. My preference would be not to get into the capitalization issue, but given that I am suggesting a change to the title of the article, it's probably best to deal with that well.)  A quick Google search seems to indicate a majority of sources have the "s", and the practice on capitalization varies. So the first logical question is, what is the official title? A visit to the NYC Department of Education's web site suggests that the title is simply "Chancellor." (See here.) Officially, it may very well be "Chancellor of the New York City Department of Education." But people aren't going to say all that, so they shorten it to "schools chancellor." Interestingly, the NYC DOE's web site uses that phrase in less formal settings such as press releases, see here, where (in the text) it is "schools Chancellor" (lower case s for schools, s at the end, upper case C.) Then there is the official bio of the (now-former) Chancellor, here, where on first usage it is "schools chancellor", both words lower case, but later it is "Chancellor" (since they already said "schools", I guess they didn't need to say it again), with an upper case C.  Delving outside the (somewhat confusing) realm of the DOE itself, here we have an Associated Press story that has "schools chancellor", both words lower case. So what do we do? First of all, I think the title of our article needs to be changed to "schools" rather than "school", as that seems to be the most common usage and it does not contradict the official title since the word "school" does not seem to be in the official title. Personally I think "schools Chancellor" looks too odd. I have a slight preference for "Schools Chancellor" over "schools chancellor" although I realize that technically the capitalization of "schools" may not be correct. So I am going to move this article to "New York City Schools Chancellor" in the next couple of days unless there are some objections, which we can then discuss. Any comments? Neutron (talk) 00:14, 4 January 2011 (UTC)

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