Thursday, April 01, 1999
14 principals fired, 44 warned in Cleveland schools shake-up
The Associated Press
CLEVELAND — The new leadership of Ohio's largest public school district fired 14 principals and gave 44 others one year to improve their work and save their jobs.
“Providing leadership to school buildings is a difficult task, and obviously not everyone is up to the task,” said Barbara Byrd-Bennett, chief executive officer of the 77,000-student Cleveland school district.
The school board endorsed the administration's contract recommendations Tuesday night to meet the state deadline to notify principals by Wednesday of their status for next year.
The district has 119 principal positions. Twenty-one received multiyear contracts, 12 decided to retire and 16 are under existing contracts.
The principals who received one-year contracts should consider it “encouragement to continue on a path of ever-increasing student and teacher accomplishment,” Ms. Byrd-Bennett said.
Ms. Byrd-Bennett, a former New York City district superintendent, was hired Nov. 16. Mayor Michael R. White got control of the district last year under a state law enacted in response to high dropout rates and low student scores.
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