New York City Department of Education York City Schools Chancellor. The current chancellor is Richard Carranza. All of the city is assigned to the NYCDOE school district except for a small section of the Bronx, which is instead assigned to the Pelham Public Schools (with tuition supported by the city government). The New York State legislature established the New York City Board of Education in 1842. Beginning in the late 1960s, schools were grouped into "districts". Elementary schools and middle schools were grouped into 32 community school districts, and high schools were grouped into five geographically larger districts: One each for Manhattan, the Bronx, and Queens,
Bronx Community College an entrance of the Hall of Fame for Great Americans. The BCC campus originally housed New York University's undergraduate college and engineering school – which was absorbed by Polytechnic Institute of Brooklyn in 1973 but is once again part of NYU – and was created at a time when a number of prominent local universities had made the move to upper Manhattan and the Bronx in order to build bigger campuses, including Columbia University, and the City College of New York. The campus consists of a mix of Classical revival buildings designed by architect Stanford White in 1892-1901 – including