Analysis Center for American Progress: States Can Improve Student Success by Perfecting Principal Selection Policies by Gary Kopycinski on October 24, 2011 Gary Kopycinski Author More in Analysis: Martha Washington’s Enslaved Maid Ona Judge Made a Daring Escape to Freedom – but the National Park Service Has Erased Her Story From Philadelphia Exhibit February 14, 2026 Always Watching: How ICE’s Plan to Monitor Social Media 24/7 Threatens Privacy and Civic Participation November 10, 2025 Full-blown Fascism Has Arrived in America as the Pentagon Expels the Press October 16, 2025 Washington, D.C.–(ENEWSPF)–October 24, 2011. Today the Center for American Progress released a report revealing that states can improve educational outcomes for children by refining policies and requirements for school principal selection.