When he asked for a high-school principalship last year, the Board of Education made him assistant superintendent.
Last year, after 14 years as a public schoolteacher, Tom Barton, 41, an ex-Marine and graduate of Texas Christian University, took on the principalship of San Diego's flagship .
Administrators begin new jobs Superintendent Jim Hogeboom delivered on an April promise to find a position for Mesa Middle School Principal Paul Jarvis, who decided to leave his post at Mesa to pursue an elementary principalship.
July 9, 2013 - The Adobe Press