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Perdido Street School: NY Post: NYC Prinicpals Rarely Held Accountable

Perdido Street School: NY Post: NYC Prinicpals Rarely Held Accountable:

NY Post: NYC Prinicpals Rarely Held Accountable

Not a surprise to those of us in the system:

They dole out discipline to teachers and students, but city school principals rarely get a taste of their own medicine.

In the past three years, just two of 14 principals formally accused of misconduct have been fired — and not a single boss in the city’s 1,600 schools was charged with incompetence, officials told The Post.

The disciplinary deficiency raises questions when 217 elementary and middle schools received grades of F, D or consecutive C’s on the city’s latest report cards, and 31 high schools rated D or