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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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