Current and past superintendents (and their advocates) describe running a school district as an around-the-clock job, with every problem their problem.
The average pay for a superintendent of schools in Massachusetts is $174,000 a year and they stay an average of five years, according to a survey by the Massachusetts Association of School Superintendents.
America's oldest seaport, Gloucester, Massachusetts is 31 miles north of Boston. Settled in 1623 as an English colony, its charter predates both those of Salem and Boston (1626 and 1630, respectively).
Because it was deemed too rocky to sustain a farming village most early settlers abandoned Gloucester and moved to more fertile grounds nearby. The seaport's identity as a fishing community was realized in 1713 when the area was reestablished as an important destination for schooner building.
