Both have black principals and high teacher morale and are well maintained.

A. J. Ketchum became one of the first black principals in the school system.

The way Howard Thomas sees it, he is not simply a principal but a black principal.

The district, where 82.5 percent of the 1,690 teachers are white, has 29 white and 6 black principals.

He eventually became the first black principal at Hempstead High School.

Though it is Saturday, there is good reason to suspect that most of the black principals do not have jobs.

He's accused of selling out when he fires a black principal.

In addition, there were no black principals, assistant principals, guidance counselors or administration staff members.

They also complain that few black schools are headed by black principals, so students do not have role models of leadership.

He found no black principals in the city's 90 high schools, and only four among 830 other public schools.