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Adams figures he can buck the trend of superintendent turnover.
'I am absolutely focused on one thing student achievement,' Adams said.
Academic accountability is the new national mantra in public education, and low-performing districts are placing high salaries and higher demands on their superintendents who find themselves caught between factions of publicly elected school boards, teachers' unions and parent groups.
'I consider that to be the toughest job in America,' said Dan Domenech, executive director of the Arlington, Va.-based American Association of School Administrators.
The school board in Kansas City has gained a reputation for micromanaging the district and end-running its own superintendent even as test scores languish year after year.
One school board member abruptly quit this past week, and in a resignation letter scolded her colleagues for not doing enough to address the district's accreditation problems and their 'continued demonstrations of micromanagement and defensive posturing.'
'This is clearly not a board that is interested in reforming its practices to achieve strong educational outcomes for our students,' said board member Ingrid Burnett, 'and I can no longer justify my involvement to myself or to my constituents.'
Even superintendents with strong track records aren't safe. Rudy Crew, honored by his peers for improving schools in Florida's Miami-Dade County, was effectively fired by his board this month when the remainder of his contract was bought out.
Critics said he mismanaged the budget and didn't build ties with communities. He was there four years
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