Eleven superintendents have come and gone in the last 20 years. Now there’s another new school chief in town — Harrison Peters, the man charged with transforming the city’s struggling school system.
In a district that has been roiled by turnover at the top, Peters’ contract stipulates a three-year commitment at $225,000 a year. In recent years no superintendent has lasted much longer than that in Providence. Peters himself has bounced from one school district to another: Hillsborough County, Florida; Houston; Chicago; Charlotte-Mecklenburg County, North Carolina; and Orange County, California.