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Hoping for a career in television sports news, the Bronx-born Dane Martinez did an about-face after 9/11. After graduating from Syracuse University, he came home and taught under the Teach for America program. Now 29, he is the program manager of school leadership development for the city’s Department of Education. Decoding the job title: It means that I do a lot of content and design of school leadership stuff to develop the principals, the assistant principals and the aspiring principals across the city. The office is relatively new, in general. It was only created in 2007.

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