The superintendent's job is a tough one on a good day. But as these three quotes from a new report make clear, the pandemic has required them to make some impossible choices balancing school health, quality teaching and constituencies like parents and teachers whose priorities frequently conflict. The report, by the American Enterprise Institute's Nat Malkus, its deputy director of education policy studies, summarizes a series of in-depth conversations with 12 school district or Catholic diocese superintendents.
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