Monday, July 30, 2012

OUSD: Changes in the principal’s office - The Education Report - Katy Murphy's blog on Oakland schools

OUSD: Changes in the principal’s office - The Education Report - Katy Murphy's blog on Oakland schools:


OUSD: Changes in the principal’s office



Monday, July 30th, 2012 at 4:55 pm in No Comments
Here it is, your long-awaited account of who’s in and who’s out of various Oakland schools this year. From this 2012-13 directory, I count 15 new principals — seven at elementary schools, three at middle schools and five at high schools. Did I miss any?
This means that about 17 percent of OUSD’s 86 schools will have new leaders. Last year, if you recall, there were 20 new principals for 98 schools.
Two schools are also trying out the co-principal model — two people who share the job. Burckhalter Elementary School, which expects to take on dozens of children displaced from the shuttered Lakeview Elementary, will take on Lakeview’s former principal as well — along with its existing leader. Claremont Middle School, which has