4,000 Gather to Mourn New York Schools Chief
More than 4,000 New Yorkers packed a church Friday to say goodby to Chancellor Richard Green, who died this week after 14 months of running the nation’s largest school system.
Serving as honorary pallbearers for Green, who died Wednesday after an asthma attack, were the schools’ superintendents of Atlanta; Detroit; Chicago; Newark, N.J.; Memphis, Tenn.; and Tucson.
The Rev. Paul Moore, Episcopal bishop of New York, and the Rev. James Park Morton, dean of the Cathedral of St. John the Divine, conducted the service at the cathedral. Green’s funeral will be in Minneapolis, where he spent most of his life.
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