








Robin Morris is one of 24 New Orleans principals accepted into this year's School Leadership Center of Greater New Orleans, which means she's agreed to spend part of her summer vacation learning how to improve her school. Since then, educators from the center have trained 150 principals from Orleans, Jefferson, Plaquemines, St. Tammany and St. Bernard parishes. A grant from Baptist Community Ministries funds most of the center's annual $1.2 million budget, including salaries for seven staff members, research grants and the summer institute June 19-24, which costs about $60,000 annually. Of the 150 principals SLC has trained since 1998, an estimated 35 are no longer in the program because of retirement or a move out of the principal position, Brian Riedlinger] said. The biggest turnover is in New Orleans Public Schools, he said.
