"Leaving New York will not be easy for Joan Sullivan.
Working in the South Bronx … the country's poorest congressional district … for the last 13 years as a teacher, principal and education reformer, Sullivan has established her dream school and been part of a revolution that's largely turned around the country's largest school district.
In three short weeks though, Sullivan will leave that work behind to embark on a whole new challenge as Mayor Antonio Villaraigosa's deputy mayor of education.
She starts Jan. 19 with an annual salary of $149,000.
The exit is bittersweet. Just this week Sullivan learned that one of the students at her campus … the Bronx Academy of Letters … earned a $56,000 scholarship to Columbia University."
Working in the South Bronx … the country's poorest congressional district … for the last 13 years as a teacher, principal and education reformer, Sullivan has established her dream school and been part of a revolution that's largely turned around the country's largest school district.
In three short weeks though, Sullivan will leave that work behind to embark on a whole new challenge as Mayor Antonio Villaraigosa's deputy mayor of education.
She starts Jan. 19 with an annual salary of $149,000.
The exit is bittersweet. Just this week Sullivan learned that one of the students at her campus … the Bronx Academy of Letters … earned a $56,000 scholarship to Columbia University."