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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.

Examines the progress of 61 East Harlem students promised payment of college tuition if they stayed in school from sixth grade through high school. Details of the scholarship program sponsored by Eugene M. Lang, of the `I Have a Dream Foundation'; Lang's personal involvement with the students; Student response.

Analyzes the causes of increasing incidents of racism on college campuses nationwide. Resentment of white students against affirmative action programs and grants; Efforts of colleges and universities to devise new codes of campus conduct.

Reports that a new system of Athenian democracy is being practiced in P.S. 64 and 240 other schools in New York City's school system for the last two years that allows teachers to request additional equipment for their classes to a panel of teachers, administrators and a principal. One of the boldest drives to shake up the nation's largest school system in two decades; Schools Chancellor Joseph A. Fernandez's reputation behind the idea; More.

Discusses reading and mathematics scores in New York City's schools. After 2 years of rebounding academic results, the scores dropped sharply this spring. Reports from some of the district superintendents indicate that the school system's recent upbeat trend that saw a decline in dropout rates and a rise in attendance may be faltering.

States that New York City Schools Chancellor Joseph A. Fernandez unveiled a plan to drastically overhaul science instruction in the city's public schools, including adding an extra year of laboratory science to high school requirements and more than doubling the number of science periods offered to elementary school students.

States that New York City Mayor David N. Dinkins and the City Council have told the Board of Education to improve its system for keeping track of spending if it wants to keep the additional $29 million in school operating funds contained in a new citywide budget agreement. Schools Chancellor Joseph A. Fernandez's reaction.

Discusses the significant decline in the number of students dropping out of high school in New York City, putting it ahead of other major cities that have also noted such declines. The Board of Education claimed credit for the change. Schools Chancellor Joseph A. Fernandez's overhaul of the dropout program; Statistics.

States that New York City Schools Chancellor Joseph A. Fernandez released budget documents showing that the city's 32 school districts spend their money in sharply different ways. Some channel far more into classroom teachers, while others spend more on security guards, supplies and administration. Fernandez hopes that by making the information available to parents he can enlist their aid in pressuring the 32 independent school boards to spend their money more effectively.

Discusses the mistrust and bickering that still persist a year after New York City Mayor David N. Dinkins moved to control a divided Board of Education by replacing its president. Schools Chancellor Joseph A. Fernandez believes his efforts to reform the public schools are being hobbled by the tensions on the board. Frustration of H. Carl McCall, president of the Board.

States that school officials accused New York City Mayor David N. Dinkins of diverting $67 million that the New York Legislature had pledged for education, and they warned that the lost money would force a harmful increase in class size in the early grades. But the city's budget director, Philip R. Michael, said that the increase in class size was the least distasteful of the unsavory choices the school system faced.

Tells what educators must do to get a job as a school principal in New York City since decentralization turned control of elementary and junior high schools over to 32 elected school boards. Competence alone won't get them a job.

Reports that six months after an early-retirement plan stripped the New York City school system of 211 of its principals, only 26 of those vacancies have been filled as parents and teachers have been bogged down in a new selection process. Donald Singer, president of the principals' union, said that the slowness of the selections has set off ripples of uncertainty that are undermining the education of the system's 975,000 children.

States that the Dinkins Administration's official review of the deadly crush at a city College gymnasium last month blames virtually all the parties that arranged and oversaw the celebrity basketball game. It reproached student organizers, college officials, a rap promoter, the police and the spectators themselves. Some of its sharpest criticism was for the Police Department.

States that a City College administrator said that he pleaded with a police captain for help at a crucial moment around the time that a human crush ultimately killed nine people at a celebrity basketball game. But the captain, instead of responding promptly, reproached him for five to seven minutes about the college's mistakes before finally calling for an ambulance. The union that represents police captains denied the account.

States that the trustees and Chancellor of the City University of New York closely questioned top officials of City College about their roles in planning a celebrity basketball game that turned deadly for nine young people. They then announced that the college would create its own security force as early as July, with guards who will be given new powers to make arrests and carry pistols. Currently, the college uses Pinkerton's guards under a contract.

Comments on the confusion following the death of eight young people waiting to get into a basketball game at City College in New York City on December 28. Explanation of the whereabouts of the money raised by the event; Dispute with promoter; Rap stars; Investigations.

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.

Comments on increased number of female and Hispanic principals in New York City's public school system, as the city filled vacancies created by the departure of more than 200 principals under an early retirement plan. Results of a study that analyzed the race and sex of the 221 principals who retired and the 211 who have replaced them so far.

Analyzes the condom issue in New York City high schools. The problems that will surface when the program is started sometime in the next few months; The unmapped wilderness of philosophical and legal questions as the city becomes the first in the nation to make condoms widely available without any say by parents.

Says that student leaders at the City University of New York (CUNY) spent $49,000 on a three-day lobbying excursion to the Albany Hilton and $13,000 on limousine service, in an effort to keep tuition low. They also spent $4,500 for a trip to the Ivory Coast by three students for an African-American Summit. All this was done with the knowledge and approval of the university's top officials, who gently admonished the students to be a little more frugal.

Analyzes the condom issue for New York City schools. Importance of the issue for Mayor David N. Dinkins. His surprising intervention with the Board of Education; His worries about his chances for re-election in 1993.

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.

Profiles the seven members of the New York City Board of Education, seven distinctly chiseled personalities who together set policies for a system of 956,000 students. They labor in relative anonymity, with Chancellor Joseph A. Fernandez making the news.

Discusses New York City Mayor David N. Dinkins' 5.5 percent raise for teachers. Objections of top city budget officials; Split in the city's negotiating ranks.

Presents the comments of students at the Martin Luther King Jr. High School in Manhattan on what they think about the school system's proposal to distribute condoms. Most think that it is a sensible step for the schools to take.

States that five of the seven members of the New York City Board of Education said they favor the distribution of condoms to teen-agers in school clinics--a reversal of the position taken by previous boards.

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.

Illustrates the indifference and lack of authority in New York City schools by telling the story of a former student who has been arrested in the shooting death of a 9-month-old boy.

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 the Board of Examiners, the agency that tests New York City's teachers and other educational employees for their licenses, is being torn apart by charges that it rushed through a test to assure job security for some of its supervisors just as the agency was about to go out of business.

Discusses the New York State legislative leaders' agreement to eliminate the Board of Examiners, which tests, interviews, and licenses school teachers and principals for the city's Board of Education, at the end of the year. Schools Chancellor Joseph A. Fernandez and most of the city and state political leaders contend that it has outlived its usefulness.

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.

Reports on the group of people who converge at 125th Street in Manhattan, where the road dead ends against the Hudson River, mostly on Sundays to wash their cars. The oldest and most unorthodox car wash in New York; Congregation of Haitian taxi drivers meet to gossip; Working on the cars.

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 on the litter and graffiti on New York's highways. The challenge to clean up the spoiled image of the city; Cites examples of the mess; Graffiti responsible for accidents; Abandoned cars.

Comments on the turmoil created at City College by the clashing theories of racial superiority articulated by two tenured professors, one white and one black. The president of the college has asked for an inquiry into the limits of academic freedom.

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.

Says that Schools Chancellor Joseph A. Fernandez is exploring the use of designated subway cars with police guards as a way to protect children from violence as they go to and from school. Difficulty in separating students from non-students; Problem of scheduling trains.

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