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Vail, Kathleen – Executive Educator, 1996
Santa Fe School Superintendent Yvonne Gonzales, the "Texas Tornado," was hired to fix a 40% student-dropout rate and a white/Hispanic gap in achievement test scores. Gonzales is an avid integrationist; relies on humor, appeasement, and persuasion tactics; and has alienated some school employees by increasing central office…
Descriptors: Achievement Tests, Change Strategies, Dropout Rate, Elementary Secondary Education
