High turnover rate for Metro Atlanta school superintendents
Once a month, about two dozen men and women drive hours to a hotel conference room in Macon to learn how to run a school district.
With the average tenure of a superintendent in large American school districts being just three years, some of them joke about the perils of their quest.
“If they don’t like you, you’ll get fired,” quipped Ed Shaddix, an assistant superintendent in Gwinnett County, one of the classmates in the training program for superintendents.
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Eric Stirgus joined The Atlanta Journal-Constitution in 2001. He is the newsroom's education editor. Born and raised in Brooklyn, N.Y., Eric is active in the Atlanta Association of Black Journalists and the Education Writers Association and enjoys mentoring aspiring journalists.
