Sentences with phrase «urban superintendents now»

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In fact, only nine of the superintendents in the nation's largest urban school systems have ever been superintendents in another major city (which is less than the number of nontraditional superintendents now running major school systems, of which there are 11).

The article announcing the undertaking tells us that almost half the nation's urban school districts had superintendent vacancies in 1990, and that the average tenure for such chief executive officers is now about two and a half years.

Now in the Urban Superintendents Program, Waronker wants to see if he can bring this success — success he attributes to the students, teachers, and parents — to the district level.

The other reform strategy pursued in recent years, by large urban districts from New York to San Diego, is to recruit celebrity superintendents from other professions, such as Joel Klein, the Clinton administration's antitrust official, who is now serving as chancellor of the New York City schools.