By all accounts, I wasn’t supposed to succeed in life. I was raised by my grandmother in a poor Philadelphia neighborhood after being orphaned at birth by teenage parents who were unable to care for me. I attended high-poverty neighborhood public schools. But my grandmother, a loving woman with a third-grade education who could read […]
Penny Nixon
Dr. Penny Nixon is Superintendent/Senior Executive Vice President for Universal Companies charter school network in Philadelphia and a member of the Chiefs for Change Future Chiefs program, which aims to build a pipeline of talented, diverse future leaders of America’s school systems.