{"id":259085,"date":"2026-08-04T18:06:08","date_gmt":"2026-08-04T18:06:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/259085\/"},"modified":"2026-08-04T18:06:08","modified_gmt":"2026-08-04T18:06:08","slug":"amid-reports-of-a-toxic-environment-at-frankford-high-its-longtime-principal-moves-on-to-another-school","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/259085\/","title":{"rendered":"Amid reports of a toxic environment at Frankford High, its longtime principal moves on to another school"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>PHILADELPHIA (KYW Newsradio) \u2014 The longtime principal of Frankford High is moving to another school following reports of a \u201ctoxic\u201d atmosphere at Frankford.<\/p>\n<p>Michael Calderone had been the principal at Frankford High School for more than a decade, leading the school while its central building was closed for two years for asbestos remediation. <\/p>\n<p>However, the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.inquirer.com\/education\/frankford-high-school-philadelphia-principal-leaving-20260803.html\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer nofollow\" target=\"_blank\">Philadelphia Inquirer<\/a> reported that the school district launched an audit of Frankford earlier this year after staffers complained that Calderone struck a student who had assaulted teachers. The audit also found that Calderone, during a budget squeeze, disregarded seniority and cut the jobs of teachers who criticized him, the Inquirer reported.<\/p>\n<p>Philadelphia Federation of Teachers President Art Steinberg, in a statement, said, \u201cFrankford High educators and staff are to be commended for bringing their concerns to the administration, and for persevering in the face of threats and bullying.\u201d <\/p>\n<p>Calderone is headed to be the principal at Dobson Elementary in Manayunk, where he began his career as a teacher. <\/p>\n<p>He did not respond to KYW Newsradio\u2019s request for comment.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"PHILADELPHIA (KYW Newsradio) \u2014 The longtime principal of Frankford High is moving to another school following reports of&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":259086,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[8],"tags":[109971,69,71,70,1998],"class_list":["post-259085","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-philadelphia","tag-frankford-high-school","tag-philadelphia","tag-philadelphia-headlines","tag-philadelphia-news","tag-school-district-of-philadelphia"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/259085","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=259085"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/259085\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/259086"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=259085"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=259085"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=259085"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}