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Mark Roosevelt has just one year under his belt as superintendent of Pittsburgh Public Schools, a financially troubled district with a shrinking student population of 32,000 and an annual budget that's grown to $546 million.
But last year the former Massachusetts gubernatorial candidate, state legislator and education reformer -- who had no previous experience running a school system of any kind -- got a good start on his plans to cut costs, raise academic standards and hold his staff accountable.See the full content of this document
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Fixing Our Schools
He closed 22 schools, laid off 60 teachers and cut 88 central office jobs. But Roosevelt still has a lot of work to do to accomplish his goal of transforming Pittsburgh from what he says it is now -- "a medium-performing urban school district" -- to a "high...
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