Principals at low-income schools often leave, but this one has stayed 17 years

“Meet Bertie Simmons. She’s 5 feet tall. She wears thick-rimmed glasses and a white bob. And she recently turned 83 years old. She's also the principal of Furr High School in Houston. ‘Have a seat,’ Simmons recently said, welcoming a mom and her son into her office. ‘So what’s going on?’ she asked.”