Monday was Terry Grier's first official day on the job as superintendent of the San Diego Unified School District, but he has already overseen $80 million in school spending cuts and participated in sending a massive batch of layoff notices to teachers. These are less-than-ideal circumstances to assume the city's top education post. Yet Grier appeared undaunted as he met with dozens of students, teachers and principals.
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FROM FEBRUARY: San Diego's new school superintendent will take office about three months early to prepare for up to $80 million in budget cuts that likely will lead to the elimination of jobs and programs. Terry Grier, who has been an administrator in North Carolina , says he will start work March 24 instead of July 1. San Diego County's 42 public school districts face cuts estimated at $350 million under Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger's proposed budget, and the San Diego district, which accounts for more than one-quarter of the county's students, will take the biggest hit.(San Diego Union-Tribune)
FROM JANUARY: Terry Grier, a North Carolina native who has been at the helm of seven public-school systems throughout the United States in the past 24 years, has been chosen to lead the San Diego Unified School District. For the past eight years, Grier has been the head of the 71,000-student Guilford County (N.C.) School District.
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EARLIER: The San Diego school board appears to be focusing its attention on educator Terry Grier, who has headed the Guilford County (N.C.) district since 2000.
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