U.S. Plan to Replace Principals Hits Snag: Who Will Step In?

The aggressive $4 billion program begun by the Obama administration in 2009 to radically transform the country’s worst schools included, as its centerpiece, a plan to install new principals to overhaul most of the failing schools. That policy decision, though, ran into a difficult reality: there simply were not enough qualified principals-in-waiting to take over. Sam Dillon, New York Times, Feb. 7, 2011