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When Jonathan Schnur was in grade school, he never lobbed spitballs or did the things that land kids in the principal's office. In fact, as a third-grader in suburban Milwaukee, Wis., he was mentoring kindergartners. Today Schnur, 38, remains dedicated to education. In 2000, Schnur and four colleagues founded New Leaders for New Schools (NLNS), now the largest organization in the U.S. for recruiting and training urban principals. The group seeks candidates from all walks of life, from executives to military officers. "The most important thing we look for," says Schnur, "is an unyielding belief that any child...
Being a principal is a tough job, but Schnur's may be just as challenging. Hiring and retaining talented principals has become increasingly difficult for many school districts. Forty percent of U.S. principals are expected to retire within the next five years, their departure hastened by the pressures of the job. But Schnur, a former Clinton Administration education adviser, is not interested in addressing simply the shortfall. He aims to raise expectations for low-income children by attracting the best and brightest leaders. The program is selective: so far just 150 applicants--all with at least two years' teaching experience...
...peace, so it is natural to want this campaign to just go away. Because both sides focused heavily on their core supporters, the political divide widened rather than narrowed as the race went on. "You can win an election without the center," notes Republican political consultant Dan Schnur of California, "but it's impossible to govern that way. I don't know how any President, the day after the election, then reaches out to the 49% of the people he's been ignoring for the past six months...
...real threat to his survival. Organizers of the recall say they have collected more than 500,000 of the 900,000 signatures necessary to qualify for a recall election. "The odds of the recall qualifying have increased to the point of near certainty," says Republican consultant Dan Schnur. And a Democrat strategist acknowledged: "Several people around [Davis] are of the assumption that they have to prepare as if it is going to qualify...
...approved visas for a WHO team last Friday, they have not yet given the team approval to visit Guangdong, nor have they indicated what medical records they will hand over. "We'd like to see more case-based data?lab results, what treatment was given, what worked," says Alan Schnur, team leader of communicable-disease control in Beijing for WHO. "We might turn up something unexpected by looking at the data...