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Dr. William Harner, currently the superintendent of Cumberland Valley School District in Mechanicsburg, will take over for Tomalis pending Senate approval. Harner spent 20 years in the military and has garnered an impressive resume in education since then. He has served as a middle school principal, a superintendent and as the deputy chief executive officer of the School District of Philadelphia. Harner was also an administrator at a New Orleans school district designed to deal with underperforming schools, overseeing nine school buildings post-Katrina.
http://www.politicspa.com/gov-corbett-taps-william-harner-as-new-education-secretary/48090/
I didn't do a lot of digging, but this article says that his teaching experience was at West Point. I wonder how he became a middle school principal (one year in Philadelphia, I think) without the requisite five years teaching experience. I wonder if he is a graduate of one of those instant-urban-principal "academies"?
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