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...York City board of education employee, was arrested after allegedly firing a gun through a Manhattan neighbor's window. In a search of Chin's apartment, police found drugs, a gun and two uncashed checks, totaling about $10,000, made out to Chin by Anthony Alvarado, 41, the city's popular, innovative chancellor of public schools. They also found the title to the chancellor's 1980 Toyota...
...Alvarado claimed that he had borrowed money from Chin between 1976 and 1983 to meet personal "financial obligations." But within a week he had disclosed a slew of additional loans: a total of $63,000 from a dozen other people, eight of whom were working for him at the time. The city's department of investigation declared that Alvarado had "demonstrated a disturbing disregard for many rules governing professional and personal conduct." Last week the board of education suspended the chancellor from his $95,000-a-year job pending an administrative hearing...
...Anthony Alvarado, 41, was appointed chancellor of New York City schools last spring after working educational magic as superintendent of East Harlem's District Four, an area where rubble spills out of abandoned buildings and youths loiter in empty lots. When Alvarado, son of Puerto Rican immigrants, was assigned to District Four in 1973, it ranked dead last among the city's 32 districts on reading test scores: only 18.5% of students read at grade level or above. Last year the district ranked 15th in the city, and 48.5% of its students were up to par in reading...
Another approach to higher standards favored by Alvarado and other reformers is the establishment within a district of a so-called magnet school, featuring specialized programs in the sciences, arts or humanities along with a core curriculum. Its purpose: to achieve integration by creating an inner-city school with an irresistible claim to academic excellence. Waller High School in Chicago, once a mere holding pen, was transformed by District Superintendent Margaret Harrigan into Lincoln Park High. It has a school of science with a college-level course in biochemistry, a school of languages that offers French, German, Italian and Spanish...
...Marielitos of Wilshire-Alvarado sleep late. But by 9 p.m., street traffic picks up around the park, where youths stand three deep, bare-chested or in ragged shirts, making deals and scouting for action. For the legitimate merchants who have chosen to tough it out, however, the terror never wanes. Bootblack Carey Smith, 77, who has worked in the district for 25 years, was robbed eight months ago of $630. But he goes on shining shoes at his small outdoor stall. Says he: "They'd just as soon kill you as look at you. You can feel the danger...