In reality, superintendents have far less job security than senior administrators who are NOT held accountable to the school board or voters. Beginning at the principal level, it is almost impossible to remove them unless they are caught committing crimes.
A snip about Beverly Hall:
Hall is the latest in a string of high-profile urban superintendents to leave their posts.
Earlier this month, New York City schools Chancellor Joel Klein and Chicago schools chief Ron Huberman announced they would step down. The controversial reformer of the Washington, D.C., public school system, Michelle Rhee, resigned in October.
What set Hall apart from most big-city school chiefs was her 11-year tenure — the average urban superintendent lasts less than half that time — and recognition that has made her one of the nation’s most in-demand education speakers.
Atlanta hired Hall in 1999 after she rose through the ranks in the public schools of Newark, N.J., and New York City. When she arrived, 90 percent of the system’s kindergarten teachers said they did not believe their pupils would graduate.
Quite a career obituary, if you ask me.
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