Veteran Superintendent Paul Vallas Under Fire Over Credentials

Education Week reports:

A Connecticut judge’s order that Paul G. Vallas, who has run some of the largest school systems in the country, must leave his post as the superintendent in Bridgeport because of a lack of formal certification highlights some of the tensions in national debates over superintendents’ qualifications and state interventions in struggling urban districts. Though Mr. Vallas, a former budget director for Chicago mayor Richard Daley, has garnered national attention as a district leader in Chicago, Philadelphia, and Louisiana’s state-run Recovery School District, he was never fully certified to be a superintendent in Connecticut.

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