Joe Clark, no-nonsense NJ school principal who inspired movie ‘Lean on Me,’ dead at 82

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Joe Clark, the no-nonsense, baseball-bat-wielding New Jersey high school principal who inspired the 1989 movie “Lean on Me,” died Tuesday at age 82, his family announced.

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