Study: Urban School Chiefs' Tenure Is 4.6 Years
Urban school superintendents stay in their jobs an average of 4.6 years, much longer than the 2.5 years widely cited by the education community, concludes a report released last week by the National School Boards Association.
"The urban school superintendent job is more stable than previously thought," said Anne L. Bryant, the executive director of the Alexandria, Va.-based NSBA. "But 4.6 years isn't perfect. We all want strong leadership over a longer period of time."
The NSBA study calculated average tenure by surveying the immediate past superintendents in the nation's 50 largest cities as of June 2000. And the average stay rose slightly to five years when looking at immediate past superintendents in 77 urban school districts that are members of the NSBA's Council of Urban Boards of Education. Those districts range in size from Ohio's 10,400-student Springfield city system to New York...
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