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Reports that in the wake of disclosures heard on tapes made by school superintendent Colman Glen, Chancellor Bernard Mecklowitz has suspended nine members of the board of School District 27 in Queens, New York for improperly influencing appointments. Other school board suspensions in New York City recently; What was heard on the tapes.

Reports that Colman Genn, 53, testified before the Joint Commission on Integrity in Public Schools in Manhattan that school board members in School District 27 in Queens pressured him into filling unnecessary jobs with their friends and supporters. Genn taped the conversations; Genn's contract renewal; Role of James C. Sullivan.

Discusses the deteriorating conditions in New York City's school system. Overcrowded classrooms, outdated textbooks, scarcity of writing paper, narrowed variety of sources, and fewer guidance counselors are the result of a $430 million cut in theschool system's $7 billion budget and an increase of 25,000 students.

Describes the situation at New York City schools. It is expected that this will be the toughest school year since the mid-1970s fiscal crisis. Crowded classrooms; Shortages of teachers; Unprecedented turnover in principals; Layoffs averted but much experience lost.

Comments on the opening of New York City's schools. Influx of children born to crack-addicted mothers; Less money to address its problems; More optimism; Experiment in power sharing; New testing office.

Reports that New York City school officials announced plans to cut $62.3 million in planned spending for the coming school year, a figure that they said is likely to reduce the teaching force in some places and further tighten the central bureaucracy by as many as 350 positions. Effects of the cuts.

Compares two schools, P.S. 28 and P.S. 309, in the Bedford-Stuyvesant section of Brooklyn. The wide gap in performance, and the reasons for it; Leadership styles of their principals; Quiet differences.

Reports that 80 New York City schools have been chosen to begin Schools Chancellor Joseph A. Fernandez's experiment in power sharing among teachers, parents, and principals, but many other schools have signaled a stiffening resistance to the plan by staying out of it. Details of the plan.

Reports that Schools Chancellor Joseph A. Fernandez was handed his first significant setback when a state judge in Queens declared that the chancellor may not interfere in the selection of district superintendents by New York City's 32 community school boards.

Reports that New York City Mayor David N. Dinkins named a black woman, Westina L. Matthews, 41, to the remaining seat on the Board of Education, completing a board whose ethnic diversity reflects the school system's largely black and Hispanic population.

Reports that New York City Schools Chancellor Joseph A. Fernandez rejected one of three candidates to be superintendent of District 19 in Brooklyn because of what he said was the official's flawed leadership as a principal and his personal conduct. This is the first time a chancellor has ever rejected a choice by a local board on the ground of educational merit.

Reports that, in spite of the $120 million spent by New York City schools in the last four years to prevent students from dropping out, most of the participants did not improve their attendance or their academic work. Results of the study, which underscores the difficulties in combating the dropout problem.

Comments on the proposal of New York City's Schools Chancellor Joseph A. Fernandez, which, if enacted by the State Legislature, would cut to the heart of the city's 20-year-old system of decentralized school administration.

Tells about the decision of New York City Schools Chancellor Joseph A. Fernandez to end a ten-year-old policy of automatically holding back lagging students after the fourth and seventh grades. Debate over whether retention does more harm than good.

Reports that New York City Schools Chancellor Joseph A. Fernandez is moving to require all the schools to prepare budgets for public scrutiny and is setting tougher standards for hiring district business managers. There have been persistent complaints that local school boards spend more money on some schools within their jurisdiction than on others.

Reports on Schools Chancellor Joseph A. Fernandez's move yesterday to strengthen control over New York City's local school boards by appointing three trustees to take over the financial operations of one Brooklyn district and temporarily blocking the forced departure of the superintendent in another. Reasons for his actions; The issue of school management.

Tells of East Bronx Public School 182's phenomenal comeback in reading scores over last year, and how it happened.

Describes the corruption in two Brooklyn schools, where superintendents say that their school boards hired a total of 150 unneeded people to patrol cafeterias and perform clerical chores at a cost of almost $2 million a year. `Undue pressure' exerted on personnel officers.

Discusses a new instance of corruption in New York City's local school districts: Two Brooklyn superintendents have told an investigative panel that they were pressured to hire relatives and friends of school board members. At stake for one of the superintendents was the renewal of his contract.

Recounts New York City Schools Chancellor Joseph A. Fernandez's accomplishments in his short time in office. How he managed to do so much; His forceful personality and political cunning.

Says that New York City Schools Chancellor Joseph A. Fernandez secured the right to remove incompetent principals from their schools in an agreement he negotiated with the head of the principals' union. Details of the accord; Fernandez's remarkable accomplishments in only a little more than two months in office.

Comments on the conflict between New York City Schools Chancellor Joseph A. Fernandez and John Cardinal O'Connor, Archbishop of New York, over where publicly financed drug counselors should work with parochial school students. At stake is not only a principle of church-state relations, but also $500,000 in federal money for drug prevention.

Says there is little confidence among officials and scholars that the York City school system's first affirmative-action plan in its history will significantly increase the numbers of minority teachers, and little evidence that it will improve student performance.

Explains the New York City school system's plan to recruit more black, Hispanic, and Asian employees, the first affirmative-action plan in the Board of Education's history. The present staff of teachers and principals is 70 percent white--the student population is 80 percent nonwhite.

Profiles the employees of the New York City Board of Education, who are usually frustrated and confused by the same quicksand of bureaucracy that they are often accused of creating. Frustration of taking the blame for the schools; Problems with the system.

Reports that New York City Schools Chancellor Joseph A. Fernandez mounted a frontal assault yesterday on the decentralized school system, demanding that its 32 local boards clear all candidates for district superintendent with him. He had invalidated the choice of a superintendent made by Community School Board 19 in the East New York section of Brooklyn, and asked its members to start the selection process all over again.

Says that Schools Chancellor Joseph A. Fernandez yesterday ordered the removal of the superintendent of Community School District 9 in the Bronx, which has been troubled by charges of corruption and mismanagement for several years. Fernandez is determined to take firmer control of the troubled system than his predecessors.

Presents a periodic look at the effects of New York City's financial plan on various agencies and services. Says that art, music and electives will be cut, there will be fewer guidance counselors, textbooks will have to make it through another year, and experimental programs will be abolished.

Comments on the multiculturalism in New York City schools. Gives examples. Says that any curriculum that emerges from the state-commissioned report urging a greater emphasis on nonwhite cultures in social studies curriculum will probably have far more impact in suburbs and small towns with more uniform populations than New York City's.

Discusses the proposals of the Temporary State Commission on New York City School Governance, known as the Marchi Commission. More school districts; Shift of power; Increase of mayor's accountability for the schools.

Discusses the differing views on the proposed Ujamaa high school for New York City. The school focuses on the needs of black and Hispanic young men. Features of the plan; Pros and cons.

Recounts the changes in the New York school system since decentralization 20 years ago. Decentralization meant to make schools more responsive; Political connections; Self-interest of political groups; Descriptions of problems in four specific districts.