Award-winning LAUSD principal — and a wrangler of snakes

Successful high school principals know that motivating students, teachers and staff is the key to academic achievement.
But what do you do about snakes?
When you are Grant High School’s Rebecca McMurrin — recently named principal of the year by Magnet Schools of America — you wrangle that snake.
That was the situation about 12:15 p.m. Tuesday at the Valley Glen campus after a student came into the office and reported seeing a snake.
“My office manager and I went out to in