"Graduate students working toward degrees in business, law or public policy might find an unusual recruiter at their next job fair.
Here's the pitch: Forget about that cushy firm job. Why not work for a public school or an education nonprofit? You don't have to be a teacher or a principal. You could be a business manager or a chief executive. You can help kids, and the pay really isn't that bad.
That's essentially the message of Education Pioneers, a nonprofit that recruits and trains top-notch graduate students for leadership jobs in public education. The California-based organization, which operates in six cities nationally, announced last week that is expanding to Houston thanks in part to donations totaling $300,000 from the Houston Endowment and the John and Laura Arnold Family Foundation."