Letters

Offer More Training, Not Bigger Paychecks

To the Editor:

Your series on educational leadership really hit a nerve with the article "Districts Said To Lack 'Enlightened' Leaders," (Feb. 14, 2001). While I wholeheartedly agree with the Institute for Educational Leadership report's recommendations to "rethink the way superintendents and school boards do their jobs," and that "the critical need for strong, responsible, and enlightened leadership should be at or near the top" of issues facing school districts, I feel strongly that the proposed solution—increasing superintendents' salaries to be commensurate with those of CEOs in the...