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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 Educational Records Bureau in New York City, a testing service for 4-year-olds seeking admission to private schools through their kindergartens. Parents consider the test a key, at an absurdly young age, to Harvard or Yale. This month, directors of 55 of the city's top-flight nursery schools said they were `seriously considering eliminating the testing' in their schools.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

Says that 2,595 untrained New York City teachers hired during the teacher shortage of recent years have not received the training they were promised. These novices, representing 4 percent of the city's teaching ranks, have been thrown into classrooms and forced to learn how to teach through trial and error.

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.