Mr. Xu calls Kashgar "a prime example of rich cultural history and at the same time a major tourism city in China". Yet the demolition plan would reduce to rubble Kashgar's principal tourist attraction, a magnet for many of the million-plus people who visit each year.
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She was an assistant principal at a magnet school in North Carolina before coming up to join KIPP AMP in January last year.
In addition, Doug Dall, principal of Clark Magnet High School since its inception in 1998, will take on the additional title of executive director of instructional support services while continuing in his role at the La Crescenta campus.
It can be difficult for parents and educators to counter the numerous examples of poor character that regularly play out in the media, said Kristina Provost, an assistant principal at Clark Magnet High School.
Which makes the directives and mandates which the District hands down to magnet principals even more puzzling.
"It's like building an airplane while it flies across the sky," said Mr. Ball, the magnet school principal in Nashville.
Ms. Larsen and her husband, Walter Schleisman, 44, an assistant principal at a local magnet school, envisioned an unbored life for their children as far back as 2006, when they bought the house for $770,000.
For the magnet schools' principals, the administration's priorities are unequivocal: "The bottom line is, if you don't hit your academic targets, they will put you on the turnaround list," Brian Leavy-DeVale, P.S. 257's principal, said, referring to the process of reorganizing a failing school.
As principal, she reassured the magnets that they could remain independent, while also addressing grievances from the neighborhood school, Price says.
