Opinion: Atlanta needs a superintendent with an appetite for urgent change

Atlanta has laid crucial groundwork that could make our city one of the best places in America for a child to get a great public K-12 education. Whether we get there depends, to an enormous degree, on the choice of our next superintendent of Atlanta Public Schools.

It’s the right time to talk about what our next leader needs to bring to the job to succeed. The Georgia Milestones state tests results show that just 33% of APS students are proficient or better in reading and writing. Only about 30% meet that bar in math. And right now, Atlanta’s school board is conducting a national search to find our district’s next leader. The search process will run through this spring, and our city’s schools will have a new leader in place for the start of the 2024-25 school year.

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