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    Free The Principal!

    Can principals be better leaders if they have more time to focus on instruction? The Washington, D.C., schools are adding managers to handle operations and logistics.
    by Eric Westervelt May 29, 2017 4 minutes
    Rayamaji chats with a student after an argument between classes.

    Pankaj Rayamajhi hears something. Senioritis?

    The director of school logistics and operations has a kind of sixth sense about that unique Spring affliction as he roams the hallways of Columbia Heights Education Campus, a public middle and high school in Washington, D.C.

    Rayamajhi quickens his pace, walkie-talkie in hand, and turns a corner into a stairwell. Yep, senioritis. When they see him, the small group of students loitering on the stairs scatters back to class.

    "Right outside Whitaker's room there are some students here probably cutting class," he says into his two-way radio to a security guard. "Can you please make sure these hallways are clear?"

    "Copy that."

    It's just one of a hundred fires small and large the burly Nepal-born school administrator will

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