City College is losing nine teaching positions next year.

Many classes already are stretched to 32+. This will only increase dramatically next year.

According to Dawson, it's because North Avenue has figured out that the teacher:student ratio should be 32:1. Most districts are 28:1, so one of the problems is right there. But North Avenue's policy did not change any this year. However, City's response to this news did change. City's response was basically, "Oh, you need us to eliminate nine positions? Go ahead. Take as many as you need." (This is hopefully not how it went down, but it's how it appears from the outside.)

There is no way that previous principals would have allowed for this to happen, because previous principals understood that City needed to maintain as much independence as possible from the incompetence at North Avenue.

Is there any doubt in anyone's mind that Joe Wilson would have fought this loss of nine teachers with every fiber of his being? Say what you want about the guy, he would have fought this tooth and nail.

This guy isn't doing it. Every piece of research states that students work better with more personalized instruction. North Avenue should know that. Absent that, though, the principal of City College should know that and do everything in his power to prevent loss of 10% of the teaching staff in his first year in office.