Pennsylvania
To help struggling districts, the state provides teams of top-notch educators for two years.
By any measure, Wynton Butler has a mammoth job. As the principal of Reading High School in Pennsylvania, he leads a building with 4,300 students—eight in 10 of whom live in poverty.
Among his to-do’s: create smaller learning communities, put in place school-to-career programs, upgrade teacher training, implement data-driven instruction, and launch new efforts to improve the English-language skills of non-native speakers.
“I would not be honest if I didn’t say it was a challenge,” says Butler, who has been a principal...
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