Newtown, Conn., and the Sandy Hook school community are mourning Dawn Lafferty Hochsprung, 47, the principal at Sandy Hook Elementary School, who was killed Friday in a horrific school shooting in which 20 schoolchildren and six adults were also killed.
Dawn Lafferty Hochsprung
Hochsprung became principal at Sandy Hook in 2010. In her two years at the school, and even before she became principal, she established a reputation as a caring, enthusiastic, and energetic educator. A neighbor told USA Today that Hochsprung seemed to be "on an upward trajectory" in the school system: Hochsprung was first a teacher, then an assistant principal at Roger Parks Middle School, then a principal at Woodbury Elementary.
