Superintendent Carol Johnson, Boston Public Schools, is retiring

In a video message today, Superintendent Carol Johnson of the Boston Public Schools has announced that she is retiring.

Carol Johnson has informed the school committee that she expects to retire in July. Her contract runs through June 2015, so she will ask the school board to accept her retirement and appoint an interim superintendent, the school system said in a statement.

As this comes at the same time as a wide-open Boston mayoral race, well...it's anybody's ballgame!