Charlotte's New Superintendent

Eric Frazier:

Almost three weeks after Superintendent Peter Gorman's resignation, the Charlotte-Mecklenburg school board on Tuesday bid him goodbye and named Chief Operating Officer Hugh Hattabaugh as interim leader.

Board members approved a separation agreement that effectively made the meeting Gorman's last as superintendent, ending a five-year reign marked by rising test scores, budget cuts and aggressive reforms that sparked outcry from teachers.

Board members praised Gorman for increasing student achievement and managing a diverse, 135,000-student school system full of competing constituencies, even at the cost of increasingly personal criticisms leveled at him.

Posted by Jim Zellmer at June 30, 2011 2:01 AM
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