Sunday, June 20, 2010

$20M Lynch fund aims to make better principals - BostonHerald.com

$20M Lynch fund aims to make better principals - BostonHerald.com

$20M Lynch fund aims to make better principals

By Renee Dudley
Sunday, June 20, 2010 -
Citing the “cancer” of weak education in America, philanthropists Carolyn A. and Peter S. Lynch have donated $20 million to Boston College for a new program to train principals of Boston’s Catholic, charter and public schools.
The Lynch Leadership Academy says it will award 25 fellowships annually to principals for a leadership retreat, two-week summer program, and monthly and weekly sessions with leadership coaches.
In an interview Friday, Peter Lynch pointed out that although the United States has an enviable higher-education system, many of the country’s kindergartens through its high schools struggle.
“There’s a cancer affecting the country in that students in some schools are not being well-served and that only limits their future opportunities in life,” said Lynch, a 1965 graduate of Boston College.
“Education in the early grades is the most important issue in America,” Lynch, who serves as vice chairman of Fidelity Management and Research Co., added