1.   A good principal is worth his or her weight in superintendents, who come and go with the political winds, anyway.

2.   Brown, however, insisted that Ms. Hadley was a good principal.

3.   He could not name his own chancellor, move good principals to the toughest schools or reward good teachers.

4.   He said the board wanted more flexibility to move good principals and the right to dismiss bad ones.

5.   She encourages him, nags him even, in the belief that this music teacher would make a good assistant principal.

6.   Top teachers do not necessarily make good principals.