The Schools Chancellor, Dr. Richard R. Green, said any school system with such statistics could not consider itself successful.

Dr. Richard R. Green arrived from Minneapolis with an enormous reservoir of good will, but quickly bogged down in the city and its bureaucracy.

The board is seeking a replacement for Dr. Richard R. Green, the city's first black chancellor, who died after 14 months in office.

He was thrust into an uncomfortable public situation after the death of Dr. Richard R. Green, the first black to be the city's schools chancellor.

Two years ago, Dr. Richard R. Green was named the city's first black schools chancellor.

The board is seeking a successor to Dr. Richard R. Green, who died last month after 14 months as chancellor.

The board asked for a delay to give the new Schools Chancellor, Dr. Richard R. Green, an opportunity to respond.

"The real enemy," he wrote, before Dr. Richard R. Green assumed the chancellorship last March, "is the system's leadership in the recent past."

Dr. Richard R. Green, from Minneapolis, was the latest of several imported schools chancellors who were slow to understand the system.

The new Chancellor, Dr. Richard R. Green, said the schedule would relieve overcrowding and improve education.