The turnover has been higher among local instructional superintendents, who each oversee 10 to 12 schools and report to the regional superintendents.

He worked most recently as a local instructional superintendent in Division 9.

Nearly a quarter - 28 of 113 - of the local instructional superintendents, a newly created position, did not return this year.

Ten regional offices were set up throughout the city; each had about a dozen local instructional superintendents, who were responsible for overseeing 10 schools each.

The final decision will be made by the school's instructional superintendent in August.

His father is an instructional superintendent for 13 schools in Queens.

She said the department was planning to hire 10 additional local instructional superintendents for next year, for a total of 123.

To listen to the city's Department of Education, the school system is defined by regional offices, local instructional superintendents and strict chains of command.

The job of local instructional superintendents was created by the Bloomberg administration's initial overhaul.

The saga ended after city and state education officials double-checked the credentials of officials being hired for the new local instructional superintendent jobs.