SFWeekly interview with Carlos Garcia

Sounds like the new Supe is making the rounds with reporters. Here's the first interview I've seen posted. Very interesting.

SF Weekly on SF Schools: Interview with new Superintendent:

But Garcia says his number one priority is to do something that San Francisco institutions are notoriously bad at -- the one thing that doesn’t come naturally to the concerned, progressive, school district that hired him.

Focus and be practical.

"We need to set achievable goals and get everyone on the same page," he told me. "We can’t take a shotgun approach. There’s too many issues we care about. If we target our resources, we can make a real difference on some of them. But we can’t try to solve all of them now."

The two priorities that are mentioned as a possible target to focus on: achievement gaps and graduation rates, sound like excellent priorities. Let's hope Mr. Gracia can step in and lead, keeping all the disparate forces pulling on the district working together. We can always hope.