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From NY Daily News: He's everything she was not.
Dennis Walcott, tapped to be the new schools chancellor, is a Bloomberg administration insider who attended and taught in city public schools - and sent his children to the system he'll lead.
Cathie Black, his embattled predecessor, was a surprising pick from the media world with no education experience and who sent her children to private schools.
"I'm just a guy from Queens whose parents were raised in Harlem," said Walcott, 59, a lifelong resident of the southeast section of the borough.