By Will Bunch, Daily News Staff Writer
Just 10 years ago, Mark Gleason was a journalist and publisher working in New York, trying to launch a magazine called Book that was heavily funded by Barnes & Noble.
His first foray into education came a couple of years later, when as a sometimes-frustrated parent he ran for and won a seat on his suburban school board in North Jersey.
Now the 48-year-old Gleason – unknown in Philadelphia at the start of the decade – finds himself at the center of the maelstrom that is school reform in America’s fifth-largest city.