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November 13, 2008

An Interview with Madison's Glendale Elementary Principal Mickey Buhl

Melanie Conklin:

Mickey Buhl, 40, became principal at Glendale in 2005, taking the helm of a Madison school with significant challenges: the highest rate of low-income students at 80 percent, annual student turnover rate around 40 percent and a majority of students in either special education or English as a Second Language classes. He's passionate about the good things happening at Glendale and working with staff members to beat those statistical odds. He's also clearly obsessed with baseball.

MC: Is it true you worked in the Congressional Budget Office?

MB: It was my first job working for anyone other than my father. I started at the CBO after I got my master's degree in public policy. They would send a bill and I'd estimate the cost of it. The Family and Medical Leave Act came through and I got that. The politics of Washington permeated every aspect of life, and there was enough nastiness to it that I just decided I didn't want to make a life of it.

MC: How did you end up as a principal?

Posted by Jim Zellmer at November 13, 2008 2:11 AM
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