Ms. Murphy said the Board of Education's Division of School Facilities has agreed to fix the system.

Thirty-six employees at the Division of School Facilities, which manages the system's 1,100 school buildings, will also lose their jobs.

Maintenance is handled by the Board of Education's Division of School Facilities.

The Board of Education's Division of School Facilities has a backlog of nearly 50,000 work orders at an estimated cost of $1 billion.

It's difficult to coordinate the 25 different categories of skilled workers employed by the Division of School Facilities.

The fault has been shared by the Board of Education's Division of School Facilities and the school custodians.

Nearly 2,600 workers at the Division of School Facilities are responsible for cleaning and upkeep of the city's more than 1,000 school buildings.

My 10-year experience teaches me it is impossible to reform the Division of School Facilities, and pouring money into it would be a mistake.

The Mayor's management report shows that the Division of School Facilities is even less productive today than five years ago.

But both the state and the Board of Education have made progress in cleaning up the mess that used to be the Division of School Facilities.