When Fairfax County Public Schools appointed Clint Mitchell as the new principal at Mount Vernon Woods Elementary School, the district’s primary directive to its newest administrator was change the culture.

It did not take Mitchell long to understand why.

A native of the Caribbean island St. Lucia who immigrated to New York as a teenager, Mitchell worked in public education first as a teacher and then as an administrator for more than 16 years before FCPS hired him in August 2016.

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