Administrators

Crowded Campaign: For the first time in anybody's memory, four candidates are vying for the top elected job at the American Association of School Administrators.

Usually, there's been a stately march toward the presidency of the Arlington, Va.-based organization, which represents district superintendents and other high-level administrators. Two members of the elected board who are finishing their three-year terms typically run against each other for president-elect. One wins and serves a year as president-elect and a year as president; the other bows out.

But that's not the pattern this year. Neither departing board member is running, in part because new rules require the group's president to be a full-time administrator. Instead, one current board member and three former board members who were defeated in their first bids for...