leader left one school and took his best staff with him, not only did the leader go, but key teacher leaders went with him.
a second example from our research concerns three schools in a northern rust belt city that are all connected to each other. one of them is a magnet school, created in the 1980s to stop white and bright flight out to the suburbs. this magnet school has done very well. the school next door, though, which used to be the jewel of the district, now calls itself the special education magnet, because all its best students have been creamed off to the magnet school. many students from 