The Education Exchange: When the School Superintendent Fired Four Principals in One Day

“Remove low performers and incentivize high performance,” says Olchefske, who champions student-based budgeting

An adjunct professor at Johns Hopkins School of Education and the former superintendent of Seattle Public Schools, Joseph Olchefske, joins Paul E. Peterson to discuss the history of student-based budgeting, its origins in Seattle, and how parent empowerment following the Covid-19 pandemic could lead to more unbundling of school services.

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