Published nationally in the School Administrator Magazine January 2022 By Joseph Batory When I finished high school in June of 1960, as someone off the streets of Philadelphia, I saw two future choices.My top option was to pursue a blue-collar job along side my father at the huge General Electric plant located in my Southwest […]

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Published in the School Administrator Magazine February 2025 By Joseph P. Batory Back in 1984, I became the superintendent of schools in Upper Darby, located just outside of Philadelphia. This was hardly planned.Within a span of four years, two formidable superintendents in Upper Darby had succumbed to heart attacks because of the extreme pressures of […]

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