Frustrated San Antonio Superintendent Calls It Quits

By Kerry A. White

After four years of struggling against a divided and sometimes uncooperative school board, San Antonio Superintendent Diana Lam has thrown in the towel.

The district's seven-member board voted 4-3 last week to accept Ms. Lam's resignation. She had four years remaining in her $142,000-a-year contract, according to district officials.

Under the agreement, the 60,000-student district will pay Ms. Lam sums of $170,000, $70,000, and $378,000 over the next two years. Some $200,000 of the $618,000 total is payment for "reputational injuries, pain and suffering, and mental anguish arising from the controversy between the two...