Chancellor Richard Carranza oversaw the well deserved demise of the ill-fated "Renewal Schools"program but he has replaced it with a more undeserving program called the "Academic Response Team" (ART).
The ART was formed in September to provide struggling schools with administrative supervision to help the Principal with strategies to improve student academic performance. The DOE provided 10 million dollars for the school year. However, for the first three months the 69, six figure salaried person ART group never set foot into a school as the CSA objected to the surprise visits and what they saw was a wasteful allocation of money, with no tangible academic improvements. Many principals rather had the money spent in the classrooms for more teachers and paras.
One of the Deputy "Leads" is the infamous Ben Sherman who alienated staff when he was Principal of Forest Hills High School and was forced to resign due to the publicity in the media. Few, if any, of the 69 person staff are teachers and I suspect they are administrators who were removed from their school positions due to incompetence, discipline issues, or could not get along with school staff that caused morale problems. I wouldn't be surprised if they came form the Renewal Schools program.
Susan Edelman of the New York Post has a complete article on the ART program and is a must read on Chancellor Richard Carranza's folly..