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Article: Alonso found his calling after switching from law.
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- The Baltimore Sun (Baltimore, MD)
- Article date:
- June 14, 2007
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Byline: Lynn Anderson and Nicole Fuller
Jun. 14--When Andres Alonso "fell" into teaching after ditching his job as a Wall Street lawyer, he took on a special education class in Newark, N.J., and dedicated himself to serving emotionally disturbed children for more than a decade, eventually becoming the legal guardian of one of his former students.
To those who have watched Alonso's life evolve from those early days as a classroom teacher to a deputy chancellor of New York's behemoth school system, the man who is the new chief executive officer for Baltimore's schools didn't just switch jobs, he found his calling.
"He is the genuine article," ...