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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 the New York City Board of Education's debate over distributing condoms to students. Schools Chancellor Joseph A. Fernandez was infuriated by the board's voting to consider whether parents should be allowed to bar their children from getting them.

Details a recent report from the Board of Education concerning a Bronx school district, No. 9 in the west-central Bronx, where two-thirds of the district's children read below grade level. Administrators `overwhelmed' by their responsibilities; Schools as `boring environments'; District superintendent Dr. Edward Whitney.

Discusses the Ujamaa Institute that the New York City Board of Education is preparing to establish. It will be an experimental high school that, while open to both sexes and all races, would have a special emphasis on the problems of young black and Hispanic men.

States that the New York City Board of Education plans to add a high school student as a non-voting member to give the board's adults a youngster's perspective on school life.

Discusses the plan submitted by the New York City Board of Education that allows them to take responsibility for only $57.5 million of the $94 million worth of cuts but outlined ways the remainder could be reached. Predicted results of the deep cuts.

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.