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School
District Hires ‘Coach’ For New Superintendent
In a split
board of trustees vote, $30,000 being spent on a mentor for Burnside
By
Allison Jean Eaton
Bulletin
Editor
COMPTON—In
what some board members labeled an “outrageous” move, Comp-ton
Unified’s Board of Trustees approved spending thousands of dollars
to hire the district’s new superintendent a coach and mentor.
The board’s Nov. 18 split decision, with board members Mae Thomas,
Micah Ali and Satra Zurita casting dissenting votes, allows $30,000 in
categorical funding that is earmarked to assist the district in complying
with No Child Left Behind (NCLB) sanctions to be used to fund the consultant.
Dr. Carl A. Cohn, a superintendent coaching consultant with Long
Beach-based Urban School Imagineers, was to begin providing support and
mentoring services to Superintendent Kaye E. Burnside Nov. 24 and will
continue do so through Dec. 31, 2009, according to the agenda item.
A clinical professor at USC’s Rossier School of Education, Cohn is
the former superintendent of award-winning Long Beach Unified School District.
He is credited with earning it, the third largest school district statewide,
the highly coveted Broad Prize for Urban Education through widespread reform
during his tenure.
In 2001 Cohn received the Harold W. McGraw Prize in Education for
his leadership in boosting student achievement in Long Beach. He earned
his doctorate from UCLA in urban and educational policy and planning, master’s
degree in counseling from Chapman University and bachelor’s degree
in philosophy from St. John’s College.
“It’s an honor to have a coach at this level, and I don’t
know of an outstanding superintendent who does not have or has not had
a coach,” Burnside
said relative to board member Marjorie Shipp’s curiosity as to how
hiring Burnside a coach would benefit students.
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