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Site SearchDurham, N.C. — Durham Public Schools Superintendent Carl Harris has been named the 2010 Central Carolina Regional Superintendent of the Year, the school system announced Tuesday.
He is now a nominee for North Carolina Superintendent of the Year.
"At DPS, his focus is on advancing academic achievement, fostering relationships with parents, businesses and the community and improving school administrative leadership," said Lawrence Walker, executive director of the Central Regional Educational Service Alliance.
The Central Region is a 15-member district composed of the following school districts: Caswell, Chapel Hill-Carrboro, Durham, Edgecombe, Franklin, Granville, Halifax, Johnston, Nash-Rocky Mount, Orange, Person, Vance, Wake, Warren and Wilson.
Harris became Durham's superintendent on July 1, 2006. He previously served as deputy superintendent.
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July 31, 2009 12:47 p.m.
And daMoFo, I refer to consultants as "con-sultans." Upper level district personnel are often feathering their own retirement nests by getting into the corporations, where the money is. It's vile.
Dr. Harris would get my vote if he were to delete the extraneous and often self-serving DPS positions among those in the $75,000+ bracket and hire more teachers with that money. That would help the students and encourage education rather than the warehousing that larger classroom memberships will help engender.
July 28, 2009 6:59 p.m.
Lifelong bureaucrat with the school system and terrible school system scores. They have schools that are threatended being shut-down as a result of the no-child left behind.
When I see this, it reaffirms/confirms my belief that the education system does not care about the kids.
July 28, 2009 4:24 p.m.
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