A high school calculus teacher helps her students at Glendale High School work through a tough word problem.
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Superintendents around the nation have stepped down from their roles at alarming rates.
Since the start of July, more than two dozen district leaders have abruptly resigned, retired or been fired by their school board, according to an EdWeek analysis of local news coverage. A number of superintendents in California have left their districts in the last year.
Recently, board meetings have become a political arena for issues such as banned books, critical race theory and Pride Month. In June, while I was serving as superintendent of Glendale Unified School District I, recommended that the board adopt a resolution to designate June 2023 as LGBTQ+ Pride Month. But this exact resolution — adopted without issue for three consecutive years — now faced backlash from some in the…
