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Article: A New School System Test
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- The Washington Post
- Article date:
- February 26, 1998
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CHARLES E. WILLIAMS, who resigned this week as the D.C. public
school system's chief operating officer, had his ardent supporters
and severe critics. In the end, his critics got the better of him.
Faced with unrelenting carping about the way he went about the job
of repairing a decrepit school system and fixing other
long-neglected problems, Gen. Williams decided he had had enough.
He leaves with the best wishes of school Chief Executive Julius
Becton, who picked him for the job, and the appointed board of school
trustees, which backed him down the line. That's not all Gen.
Williams leaves in his wake, however. A largely unfinished agenda
has been left behind, and it urgently needs ...