No one at board headquarters in Brooklyn would discuss any candidates publicly last week.

We've got 5,400 bureaucrats at central board headquarters for 1 million kids.

Three other auditors will join their staff within the week, all working out of board headquarters in Newark.

If anything, the latest example of intrigue at board headquarters is more of the same.

"We've said from the beginning that you can't make a 2,500 person cut" at board headquarters, he said.

He promised more information in the weeks to come and said he had found many people at board headquarters "waiting to begin a new day."

The changes include the elimination of some offices and divisions at the board headquarters.

The central board headquarters, with more than 5,000 employees, could then be reduced to about 300.

Eventually, he said, the board headquarters should operate with roughly 300 to 400 people rather than the 5,200 who work there now.

Not a meeting was held at the board headquarters that he did not know about, some said.