Moral rudders and superintendent values: the hardest choices arise when both sides are right. How do good leaders make these tough calls?(Cover story)

From: School Administrator | Date: May 1, 2008| Author: Kidder, Rushworth M. | Copyright information

As Ellen recalls it, the case was remarkably complex. It had exploded dramatically in a midsize metropolitan school district, where a principal was arrested and led out of his school one morning on a sex-abuse charge.

Five years later, when Ellen became superintendent in that district, the case was still wending its way through the courts with a final appeal yet to be heard. The charge came from a woman who accused the principal of molesting her decades earlier when she ...

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