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...committee held off on a vote of the matter after members raised concerns that the motion would deter possible candidates from applying to the high school’s principalship...
...with no fewer than two high schools, two junior highs, five elementary schools, and a budget of $4.4 million raised from tuition and private gifts. Last year, after 14 years as a public schoolteacher, Tom Barton, 41, an ex-Marine and graduate of Texas Christian University, took on the principalship of San Diego's flagship, Christian High, which has been running for 16 years. Bar ton was deeply concerned about public school vandalism, teen-age drinking, cheating and classroom chaos. Says he: "When you have public schoolteachers who don't live in the communities they serve, who have...
...runs a tavern, was once indicted for accepting a bribe from a parking meter company (the case was dismissed). Two years ago, Board Member Eddie Kopek, who owns a laundry to which the board illegally gave $1,467.13 worth of business, was indicted for trying to sell the principalship of the Pulaski Elementary School (the indictment is still pending; Kopek resigned from the board last month...
...Beloit College where, as an assistant in the chemistry laboratory, he "mixed the drinks for the boys to analyze." Switching to Northwestern, he studied education, had a rapid succession of jobs that landed him in Chicago as an elementary-school principal. When he asked for a high-school principalship last year, the Board of Education made him assistant superintendent...
...self in some other profession at the same time, can be done, but the cases are rare in which both tasks are done justice. For beginners in teaching the, position of assistant in a high school offers large advantages for acquiring experience in school government, or, better still, the principalship of a small school. The best course is to assume the latter first and then to advance to a larger school...