Chief education officer Barbara Eason-Watkins stepping down

For the past 15 months, Chief Education Officer Barbara Eason-Watkins has stood next to her new boss Ron Huberman, often quietly watching his trademark power points outlining plans to restructure or issue mass layoffs.

At times, she’s added what she could, usually calmly assuring people, whether it be principals or reporters, that things won’t change too much, that the world is not coming to an end...