Boston Plan Targets Principals and Curriculum

Boston Superintendent Thomas W. Payzant has begun reviewing the performance of the principals in each of the city's schools and says he will decide by the end of the school year which of them will keep their jobs.

The evaluations and an ongoing curriculum overhaul are part of a plan that the former U.S. Department of Education official says will give the city's children a completely restructured school system by the fall.

Principals, teachers, and district officials met last week at each of the city's 117 schools to review more than 400...

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