Fairfax Superintendent Jack D. Dale to retire

Fairfax County Superintendent Jack D. Dale, who has weathered a brutal recession and parent frustrations while steering one of the nation’s top-performing suburban school systems for the past seven years, announced Thursday he will retire when his contract ends in June 2013...

...“Dr. Dale and his current administration seem so anxious to maintain our reputation that they’re never willing to look for the problems,” parent activist Maria Allensaid. “Too many of our kids fall through the cracks.”

Many candidates in the board election have positioned themselves as reformers who would challenge the superintendent’s decisions, greet his ideas with skepticism and force his administration to operate with more transparency...

Read the full Washington Post story here.