The Education Exchange: Detroit School Superintendent Nikolai Vitti on How He Changed Three Quarters of the District’s Principals

“The board has to know that they’re hiring a reformer,” he says. “I think they wanted someone that was not afraid to implement change.”

Photo of Dr. Nikolai VittiThe Superintendent of Detroit Public Schools Community District, Dr. Nikolai Vitti, joins Paul E. Peterson to discuss how he has helped Detroit schools rebound from financial strains to its current renaissance.

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