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Despite a rapid explosion of suburban developments over the last 20 years, beef, grain and produce farms continue to operate near many schools in Chandler, Ariz., as seen on March 3, 2021. Ash Ponders for Education Week
Suburban Public Schools Are Now Majority-Nonwhite. The Backlash Has Already Begun Chandler, Ariz., where the public schools were 49.9 percent white at the start of this school year, embodies the tensions roiling suburban America
Suburban Public Schools Are Now Majority-Nonwhite. The Backlash Has Already Begun Chandler, Ariz., where the public schools were 49.9 percent white at the start of this school year, embodies the tensions roiling suburban America
Updated: Thursday, December 10, 2020 - 5:39pm
Chandler Unified School District
Chandler Unified School District Superintendent Camille Casteel has announced she will retire at the end of the school year in June 2021.
The superintendent of the Chandler Unified School District has announced that she will be retiring at the end of this school year. After 50 years of working in the district, Superintendent Camille Casteel feels this is the right time to retire, she said in a letter to families.
Casteel joined the district as an elementary school teacher in 1971 when the district only had six schools and about 5,000 students. It’s since grown to 47 schools and 44,000 students. A trailblazer in the district, Casteel became its first female principal in 1983 and first female superintendent in 1996.