It is named after longtime educator and businessman Dale Gordon Bynum, who died in 2009.

Ms. Lam described the Education Department as a place of warring agendas with longtime educators on one side and new management experts on the other.

Betty H. Fairfax High School, named after a longtime educator in the district, opened in 2007.

Mr. Lee said he is aware of how that strategy sounds to longtime educators, who may accuse him of lacking commitment.

Williams was also a dedicated and longtime educator.

Brogan is a longtime educator who served eight years in statewide office.

Before his legislative tenure, he was a longtime educator as the principal of Eisenhower Junior High School.

Mr. Mecklowitz, a longtime educator in the city and who is white, originally said he would not be a candidate but has since changed his mind.

He was a longtime educator, retiring as Principal of James M. Hill High School.

But until these teachers prove themselves in the classroom, longtime educators in teacher training will be skeptical.