Dysfunctional Public School System Continues to Drive Good Educators Away:
By Bill Turque, Published: The Washington Post, June 25, 2011
Bill Kerlina won a plum assignment when he was hired away from Montgomery County in July 2009 to become a principal in Northwest Washington. Phoebe Hearst Elementary was a small, high-performing school, right across the street from Sidwell Friends.
Instead, he said, the dysfunction he encountered in D.C. public schools led him to quit this month, fed up