alone three decades. In some ways, Tukeva has been able

to fly below the radar. She enjoys the background, preferring not to draw at- tention to herself. She works alongside parents and teachers, rather than using a top-down style. She resists taking credit, attributing the school’s success to the students, parents and community members who through the years fought off the system’s repeated attempts to close the school, and the corporate “amigos” who raised millions of dollars and used their political muscle to get a new campus built. “Good organizations that survive do

not just depend on a leader that’s out in front,” she says. “It’s not healthy for an organization to develop that way.” In a show of confidence, D.C. Schools

Chancellor Michelle Rhee in August 2008 added Lincoln Middle School — the feeder school that shares the new campus — to Tukeva’s responsibilities as principal. Now, the low-key leader is working to do for the middle school what she has done for the high school.

Tukeva was not long out of graduate

school, working as an administrative assistant at a Hispanic mental health agency in Northwest Washington — called Centro Hispano de Salud — in the late 1970s, when she began notic- ing similar complaints from immigrant parents: Their children had been good students in their native country but were being referred to special educa- tion by their schools. That was before bilingual education courses were widely offered, and Tukeva knew the schools simply didn’t know what to do with the students. At the same time, Tukeva said, word was circulating that some schools were asking for students’ green cards, discouraging many from enrolling. She believed strongly that the school system was disenfranchising immigrants from the education process. “They were being mislabeled,” says

Ricardo Galbis, the center’s director at the time. The school system “lacked the cultural competence to see what was normal and abnormal.” The complaints resonated with Tuke-

va, who grew up in Pennsylvania with a father of Finnish descent and a mother from Spain. Tukeva was in sixth grade

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