In his first two weeks on the job, Andres Alonso has established a hands-on leadership style that distinguishes him from previous chief executive officers of the Baltimore school system. From now on, no principal is appointed without a personal meeting with him. No long-term suspension or expulsion receives his approval until he is briefed on the situation. No contract is sent to the school board without his review.
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EARLIER: After one year, Andrés Alonso, the senior instructional official in the New York City public schools, is resigning as Chancellor Joel I. Klein’s top deputy to become chief executive of the Baltimore public schools. Alonso will be succeeded on July 1 by Marcia V. Lyles, a veteran superintendent from Brooklyn who has worked in the city school system for three decades. (New York Times)
ALSO: In Baltimore, Alonso will inherit a school system less than one-tenth the size of the one he works in now, but one beset with problems that include a decades-old special education lawsuit and deteriorating buildings. (Baltimore Sun)
