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Discusses the alternate-side-of-the-street parking in New York City, where car owners rise extra early each morning, and, unshaven, unwashed and unkempt, slip clothes over their pajamas and race downstairs to move their cars to the opposite side of the block to elude a $35 ticket.

Tells of the problems involved when Joseph H. (55) and Carol F. (54) Reich tried to give the New York City Board of Education a building to be used as an elementary school. Their ideas for the school; Possible happy ending.

States that New York City Schools Chancellor Joseph A. Fernandez has barred school supervisors from regularly collecting teachers' lesson plans. He wants teachers to write lesson plans for themselves, not their bosses, with the aim of `furtheringinstructional outcomes.' Opposition of the Council of Supervisors and Administrators, which is reviewing the legality of the directive.

Discusses the criticism advanced at the New York City Board of Education for the plan to give condoms to high school students. Suggested changes in the plan that Schools Chancellor Joseph A. Fernandez said would `take the heart out' of it.

Presents the second article of a periodic series on New York City schools, and tells about Richard W. Wong, 56-year-old Cantonese immigrant and the godfather of a neighbor's three children who attend Public School 192 in Harlem. He is part of an experiment in power-sharing known as school-based management that is the center of School Chancellor Joseph A. Fernandez's blueprint for overhauling the city's lackluster schools. How he has contributed.

Presents the first of a periodic series. Reports on a visit to Public School 192 on Harlem's western edge, and tells about the power-sharing experiment, known as school-based management, that is the cornerstone of School Chancellor Joseph A. Fernandez's plan to overhaul the schools. Details.

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 the New York Board of Education abandoned its resistance and agreed to seek the full $94 million in budget cuts requested by City Hall. Possible emotional split between Schools Chancellor Joseph A. Fernandez and the seven board members; Prospect of layoffs.

Discusses the resistance to New York City Mayor David N. Dinkins' efforts to cut the city's budget by more than $1 billion. The stiffest resistance came from Schools Chancellor Joseph A. Fernandez.

Comments on the close relationship between New York City Schools Chancellor Joseph A. Fernandez and the teachers union. How the alliance has benefited both sides; Possible perils.

Says that, to satisfy new budget cuts of $94 million demanded by City Hall, New York City Schools Chancellor Joseph A. Fernandez is drawing up plans to eliminate hundreds of jobs, many through layoffs. He is also strongly considering selling Board of Education television and radio stations valued at a minimum of $15 million.

Reports that, in a slap at the New York City school system, State Education Commissioner Thomas Sobol rescinded the registrations of practical nursing programs at all six high schools that offer them and ordered the programs to close by September.Schools Chancellor Joseph A. Fernandez was told it was because the programs were not turning out enough students who could pass the state licensing examination for practical nurses.

Tells about the dress code (requiring male students to wear ties) being planned by Frank Mickens, principal of Boys and Girls High School in the Bedford-Stuyvesant section of Brooklyn. Mickens's aim is to impart a sense of pride in black boys drawn to drugs and danger of the streets and to give the school a more businesslike air.

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.

Reports that Joseph A. Fernandez, who will become New York City's Schools Chancellor next month, named Stanley S. Litow, one of the school system's most vocal critics, to be a new deputy chancellor and the chief operating officer. Profiles Litow.

Describes the approach used in P.S. 84 on Manhattan's West Side to give English-speaking elementary schoolchildren a truly fluent command of a foreign language, both spoken and written. The method, known as dual language, two-way immersion, or bilingual immersion, is revolutionizing both language instruction and bilingual education in many parts of the nation.