superintendent
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administrant, administrator, archon, director, exec, executive, manager, supervisor
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The police superintendent and his deputies should have saturated the city, not locking people up, but talking to residents in open forums about how police officers can do their jobs better. — Dahleen Glanton, chicagotribune.com, "Column: Unless Chicago’s crime problem dramatically improves, Superintendent Eddie Johnson will have to go," 10 July 2019 And this is not the fault of teachers or superintendents and change must start at the top. — Mike Cason | Mcason@al.com, al.com, "Alabama school board members weigh in on plan to replace them," 9 July 2019 The San Francisco Unified School District’s superintendent and school board president are black men, both raised here, and Mayor London Breed, the first black woman to hold the post, grew up in Fillmore public housing. — Lee Romney, latimes.com, "Has Hollywood wised up to San Francisco’s gentrification crisis?," 3 July 2019 As school superintendents and state education directors, TFA alumni have pushed to expand charters. — Annie Waldman, ProPublica, "How Teach for America Evolved Into an Arm of the Charter School Movement," 18 June 2019 But superintendents and others collecting pensions of more than $300,000 a year are another, especially when they are guaranteed to increase by 3% every year. — Ted Slowik, Daily Southtown, "Slowik: If we're voting on 'fair taxes,' why can't we vote to reduce pension benefits?," 14 June 2019 The state superintendent and chancellor would be on the board with three other members appointed by the governor. — Patrick O'donnell, cleveland.com, "New state “takeover” plan would start intervention early for schools with F grades," 12 June 2019 Lebanon’s school board and superintendent are all white. — Keith Bierygolick, Cincinnati.com, "'Pick up my book, slave': The hostile environment for black students at an Ohio school district," 10 June 2019 In the summer of 2016, Robinson and Fabiani met with the district’s superintendent and reading specialists to craft an after-school homework program to help elementary school kids complete their assignments with confidence. — Oona Goodin-smith, https://www.inquirer.com, "Thanks to a school custodian, Ambler students are getting the homework help they need," 6 June 2019These example sentences are selected automatically from various online news sources to reflect current usage of the word 'superintendent.' Views expressed in the examples do not represent the opinion of Merriam-Webster or its editors. Send us feedback.
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