Laura Bush Unveils Bold Principal-Training Initiative
Former First Lady Laura W. Bush, center, James K. Glassman, left, the Executive Director of the George W. Bush Institute, and Charlene Lake, right, senior vice president public affairs and chief sustainability officer for AT&T, announce a new principal-training initiative at North Dallas High School in Dallas on September 29.
—Lara Solt/The Dallas Morning News
Dallas
Former first lady Laura W. Bush announced a new nationwide initiative today aimed at changing the way America’s principals are recruited and prepared—and how they run schools.
Mrs. Bush’s announcement at a high school here marks the first major effort of the nonpartisan George W. Bush Institute , located at Southern Methodist University, in Dallas. The institute’s newly formed Alliance to Reform Education Leadership will work toward the goal of giving teachers what they say they need most—great principals.
“Strong leaders create a cascading effect of success,” she said. “To succeed, we need exceptional leaders in every school district as the...
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Correction:
An earlier version of this story misstated the number of education colleges already chosen to participate in the initiative. There are two.
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