Under Tirozzi, NASSP Looks to Brighter Future

By Bess Keller

New Orleans

After months of hard work, leaders of the National Association of Secondary School Principals say they have raised the group out of its financial and management crisis of a year ago and, by putting a respected leader at the helm, launched anew.

Gerald N. Tirozzi stepped down from his job as an assistant secretary in the U.S. Department of Education to head the nation's largest principals' organization. His appointment has brought relief and optimism to the group's Reston, Va., headquarters and among its state affiliates.

Mr. Tirozzi made his debut here at the group's recent 83rd annual convention, and early this month he moved into the suburban-Washington office Timothy J. Dyer vacated a year earlier. Thomas F. Koerner, the former deputy head whom the nassp board named executive director after firing Mr. Dyer from that post, has retired after 27...