Nikolai Vitti (Twitter photo)
Nikolai Vitti: "People have to be patient." (Twitter photo)
Everyone realizes Detroit Public Schools Superintendent Nikolai Vitti has a monumental challenge ahead in his bid to reform the school district. And in his rookie year, he's got big plans to begin that steep climb.
Erin Einhorn of Chalkbeat Detroit writes:
It could be years before Detroiters see significant improvement in their struggling city schools, but Detroit’s new schools boss says there are some very specific ways that he expects to see some progress by next year.
Among them: improvements on test scores, attendance rates, teacher hiring and the amount of money district grads receive in college scholarships.
Those goals are spelled out in the documents that the Detroit school board plans to use to evaluate the new superintendent, Nikolai Vitti.
"People have to be patient," he said at a forum last week. "We're going to work with a sense of urgency. We're working night and day, but this is not going to be rebuilt in a year.
"It took two decades in my calculation to break one of the best urban school districts in this country. . . . We're not going to rebuild it in a year."
