All eyes will be on how the Boston native and veteran school administrator will address longstanding challenges in Massachusetts' largest school district and whether she will have staying power.
Skipper returns to the Boston school system after leading the Somerville Public Schools for seven years. Before that, she was a teacher, principal and administrator for BPS for over 18 years, helping launch TechBoston Academy in 2002.
The Boston School Committee on Wednesday voted to offer Mary Skipper, Somerville’s superintendent and a Dorchester resident, the job of overseeing the city’s 50,000 students and 122 schools. The job offer comes 70 days before the first day of the new school year, and as an agreement between state and city officials, hammered out and finalized earlier this week, calls for