Real-World Lessons
A nonprofit group runs an ‘alternate route’ for urban principals.
Since 2000, New Leaders for New Schools has recruited and trained more than 300 principals and placed them at the helms of troubled schools in cities across the nation.
But the nonprofit organization, co-founded by Jonathan Schnur, an education policy adviser in President Bill Clinton’s administration, and sustained by his political savvy and prowess at fundraising, aspires to much more.
Even in schools where achievement has been mired at the bottom for years, New Leaders principals are expected to ensure that their students dramatically improve in reading and mathematics. By 2014, the organization has pledged to raise 90 percent of students to proficiency at any school where one of its principals has been in charge for five straight years—a goal that Schnur expects will add up to somewhere between 300 and 400 schools. For its principals in high schools, New Leaders is expecting graduation rates of...
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