DC principals: “Class of ’08” continues to dwindle
In 2008, then-Chancellor Michelle A. Rhee turned over a third of the city’s public school principal posts, reassigning some leaders and hiring what the head of New Leaders for New Schools, a recruiting nonprofit, called “an army of believers.”
But struggling urban school systems chew up principals. With each successive spring, more members of the DCPS 2008 cohort have moved on through resignation, retirement, termination for poor academic performance or other issues. Officials never spell out the exact reasons, and few of those moving on ever talk.
DCPS confirmed Tuesday that at least 17 school leadership jobs will change this year. They include three more members of the class of