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SJ Unified chief to retire after 39 years in education
- 06-01-2010
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By Sharon Noguchi/San Jose Mercury News
Amid education's worst fiscal crisis in decades, he's convinced teachers to work longer hours for less pay. He's overseen a steady rise in test scores in some of San Jose's lowest-performing schools. He arm-wrestled the state and won, in defining which schools — not his — should be labeled the worst of the worst. Now San Jose Unified Superintendent Don Iglesias plans to retire from the South Bay's largest school district. The charismatic career educator says he is looking toward "jumping off the bullet train and onto a stagecoach." Those who know him expect that stagecoach to steer a fast, careening course. After all, the man who calls himself "an adrenaline junkie" fed his habit during 39 years in education and at 61, doesn't look like he's about to slow down. (more...)
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