Charlene Williams, a former Roosevelt High School principal, has been tapped by Gov. Tina Kotek to lead Oregon's state education department.
Charlene Williams owes her career in education in part to a French fry.
Williams, Gov. Tina Kotek’s choice to lead the Oregon Department of Education as the state’s schools and students struggle to recover from the pandemic’s toll, was in eleventh grade in North Carolina when her pre-calculus teacher slipped on the aforementioned fry and was out for a week.
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