In Washington, DC, it's out with the old, in with the new:
Forty-four D.C. public schools -- about a third of the schools in the system -- will have a new principal when classes start next week, Superintendent Clifford B. Janey announced yesterday.School officials said the turnover is unprecedented and reflects a high number of retirements and an effort to weed out principals who were not performing adequately. Janey had said in April that 25 percent to 40 percent of the system's principals were not up to par...
In the recruitment of principals, Meria J. Carstarphen, the system's chief accountability officer, said she and her staff were deliberate in finding the school best suited for each candidate. She said they also sought to assemble a team that could help principals at 81 schools identified as "in need of improvement" for failing to make academic benchmarks two or three consecutive years under the federal No Child Left Behind law.
Of course the union that represents D.C. principals has filed grievances on behalf of a few of those who are now looking for work. That's to be expected, but I have higher hopes for DC now.
Posted by kswygert at August 23, 2005 09:01 AM