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New Superintendent of Schools in Providence Touts Grandmother’s Discipline
The new head of the failing public schools in Providence, Rhode Island says he was raised by a grandmother who had a second grade education but a "doctorate in discipline."
Harrison Peters, who has worked as a teacher, principal, and administrator, was named superintendent by the state's education commissioner, because the city's public schools are in such rough shape that they have been taken over by the state.