Third area superintendent to step down

The superintendent of Falls Church City Public Schools announced that she will resign at the end of her contract, making Lois Berlin the third area schools chief to announce her exit in less than three months.

Berlin will have served for seven years when her contract expires in June 2011, a long tenure for her position. During her reign over the small school system, Falls Church boasted the highest SAT scores and highest graduation rate in Virginia; its 2010 SAT scores were the highest in both Virginia and in the history of the district.