Q&A: Superintendent Recounts His Double Duty as Principal

Since the beginning of the school year, Stephen V. Young, the superintendent of the 850-pupil school district in Kirtland, Ohio, also has been serving as principal of the district's elementary school.

Mr. Young, 47, was forced to take on his new duties after taxpayers in the town east of Cleveland rejected three tax levies that would have allowed the district to replace the retiring elementary-school principal.

The superintendent, who has held his position for four years, had never served as...