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Just so you know, nobody seems to think Ackerman is staying.
Let me make this very clear: This is no unofficial confirmation - and certainly no official confirmation - of what is, essentially, nothing more than speculation. However, it's speculation shared by virtually - heck, maybe literally - every source CP's spoken with for weeks now. That, we think, makes it news.
Just so you know, nobody seems to think Ackerman is staying.
Let me make this very clear: There is no unofficial confirmation — and certainly no official confirmation — of what is, essentially, nothing more than speculation. However, it's speculation shared by virtually — heck, maybe literally — every source CP's spoken with for weeks now. That, we think, makes it news.
When the schools open back up this September, say these sources, they expect that Superintendent Arelene Ackerman will be long gone.
Even as the District prepares to cut hundreds of millions of dollars from its budget, and even as the city is poised to vote tomorrow on funding that may set the stage for other, bigger political decisions about the schools — amidst all this, no one in the know seems to believe Ackerman will stick around.
If she were to leave, it would mean that she wouldn't herself oversee the implementation, or potential consequences, of hundreds of millions of dollars in cuts to the District's budget — cuts she's nonetheless apportioning now, and which, at least to some extent, seem aimed at preserving some of her own initiatives.
Prior to taking over Philadelphia's schools, Ackerman spent three years as the superintendent of Washington, D.C.'s schools, and six years in charge of San Francisco's school district. She left that post amid controversy over her leadership, with the Board of Education approving the invocation of a "compatibility clause," — she and the Board were incompatible, in other words — which allowed her to walk away with an additional $375,000.
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