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The Principal Problem

Ohanian Comment: If you're in the mood to be outraged, you can listen to the show at the url below. Here is the board of directors for New Leaders for New Schools, the outfit featured on this edition of The Connection. Jon Schnur is the CEO. His thinking is, if you can lead an Army unit in Iraq, you can turn around a failing school in New York City.

Josh Bekenstein -- Managing Director, Bain Capital Partners

James Bell -- CFO, The Boeing Company

Edwin Cohen -- President, The Blessing Way Foundation

Libia Gil -- Senior Fellow, American Institutes for Research

Vanessa Kirsch -- President & Co-founder, New Profit, Inc.

Janet Knupp -- President & Founder, The Chicago Public Education Fund

Josh Lewis (Board Chair) -- Managing Partner, Solomon Lewis LLC

Lynn Liao -- Director, The Broad Foundation

Aaron Lieberman -- CEO, Acelero Learning

Jonathan Schnur -- CEO, New Leaders for New Schools

Joanne Weiss -- Managing Partner, New Schools Venture Fund

In the next five years, nearly half of all public high school principals are expected to retire.

School districts from Seattle to New York are struggling to find someone willing to take on a job filled with stress, school violence, long hours, and shrinking budgets. One man says he has the answer. Jon Schnur is spearheading an effort to recruit and train people like military colonels and business executives to be principals. His thinking is, if you can lead an Army unit in Iraq, you can turn around a failing school in New York City.


— Dick Gordon
NPR The Connection
2004-12-16
http://www.theconnection.org/shows/2004/12/20041216_b_main.asp

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