New York State Education Commissioner Richard Mills, who has carried out one of the nation's most aggressive and expensive education reform efforts during 13 years on the job, announced he will resign by June.
A spokesman for Mills says the commissioner is not being forced out of the job and he doesn't intend to retire. Earlier in the week, the chairman of the Board of Regents issued a formal statement saying it wanted to keep Mills on the job.
The commissioner was appointed to his post in 1995. Before that, he had the same job for the state of Vermont.
Mills got his start as a history teacher at the prestigious Dalton School in Manhattan. He helped establish and run an alternative public high school in Manhattan in the 1970s.
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