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Tulsa Public Schools Superintendent Keith Ballard talks with school board members during a retreat at the Education Service Center. MICHAEL WYKE/Tulsa World

By World's Editorial Writers
Published: 10/10/2008 2:09 AM
Last Modified: 10/10/2008 3:19 AM

It's a big job, and he's up to it

Welcome to Tulsa, Keith Ballard.

Perhaps welcome back would be more appropriate.

Ballard — who has lived in the Tulsa area for years and has successfully led two suburban districts — takes the reins as Tulsa's new school superintendent at the end of the day Friday.

Listing all the challenges involved in taking command of the state's largest school district would well exceed the space allowed for a newspaper editorial.

Suffice it to say that Ballard has a huge job ahead of him.

We believe he has the talent and the personality to succeed in that task.

Ballard is a plain-spoken man. He looks at programs that are broken and says they must be fixed. He looks at programs that are not broken and asks how they can do even better. He looks at programs that are excelling and insists that everyone else look too.

Tulsa school patrons can expect an era of reform and high expectations during Ballard's tenure. Schools will be safe, orderly, and children will walk away from them ready to face the challenges of contemporary life.

Nothing less will be satisfactory to the students, the teachers, the taxpayers or to Ballard.

The Tulsa school board made a good choice in hiring Ballard, and there's only one thing left to be said to him at this point: Godspeed. By World's Editorial Writers

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