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Article: Edmonton's Entrepreneur Won't Tolerate 'Dumb Rules'.
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- School Administrator
- Article date:
- October 1, 1999
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Emery Dosdall knows the critical decisions--those having any connection to student learning--aren't the ones that usually get settled in the superintendent's office.
This explains why his work log in Edmonton, Alberta, has averaged 290 distinct visits to schools in his district during the past two years, why he redirected $20 million in spending from the central office to school sites and why he insists that all 206 building principals report directly to him.
"I tell the principals, 'When parents call, I don't have any more wisdom or creativity than you do, so I'll expect you'll handle these [matters]" says Dosdall, Edmonton's superintendent since 1995. ...