Principals: So Much to Do, So Little Time
As if she weren't already wearing enough hats, Sandy Murray recently added two more: those of an adult education coordinator and a babysitting-service manager.
Faced with an influx of families who speak only Spanish or Creole, the principal at Plantation Elementary School in Florida started an adult-literacy program. The hope was to improve communication between home and school, while helping parents learn enough English to lift themselves out of poverty. But to make sure parents weren't kept from taking part because of a lack of child care, she arranged for someone to watch their youngsters while they attended the classes.
"So I have week-old babies and adults at my facility," said Ms. Murray, whose school sits outside Fort Lauderdale, "and I was educated to be...
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