An unusual man, an unusual job

01-19-2010

By Emily Alpert/Voice of San Diego

A small group of school officials looks grimly over stacks of spreadsheets in a conference room. The whiteboard lists the sum that San Diego Unified has to cut from its budget -- $93 million. And Phil Stover is talking about a baobab tree he once saw in Africa. "Kids sat with slates and chalk" underneath the tree, he is saying. "And I'm telling you, those kids learned to read and write." San Diego Unified has to get closer to the baobab than it is now, Stover says. It must pare back on its scattered offices and its thousands of employees, who are all anxious about what happens in this room. They must decide what the absolute basics are to run schools. And anything they don't choose could be cut. Stover is an unusual man in an unusual job. (more...)

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