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Headmaster of English High School won’t return in the fall

By Andrea Estes

 |  Globe Staff  

  May 07, 2012

The headmaster of Boston’s long-troubled English High School told the faculty Monday that he will not be returning to the school in the fall. Sito Narcisse, 36, came from Pittsburgh in 2009 with a mandate to overhaul the Jamaica Plain school, deemed one of the city’s 11 most underperforming. But scores on the Massachusetts Comprehensive Assessment System tests in English and math last year showed only a marginal improvement from the previous year, while other underperforming schools showed much better results.

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