Giving Compass Take:

• Success Academy in NYC has started a new fast-track principal training program to draw leaders from across industries, as Chalkbeat reports. The two-year fellowship program will rapidly train leaders from non-education industries to become principals across the nation.  

• Will this program help address the high principal burnout rate in the New York City charter schools? Would leaders who have no experience in the classroom make effective principals?

• Read more about principal preparation programs.

New York City’s largest charter operator is launching a fast-track program designed to quickly train business leaders to become principals at schools across the network and elsewhere.

Starting this spring, Success Academy is kicking off a two-year program to take “talented leaders from across industry” — especially those with MBAs — and convert them into principals at one of the network’s 47 schools or at other schools across the country.

The program is noteworthy partly because it could help address a consistent problem among New York City charter schools: They tend to burn through principals at a higher rate than traditional public schools do.

Read the full article about Success Academy's principal training program by Alex Zimmerman at Chalkbeat.