A board that oversees Okay-12 schooling in Massachusetts right this moment beneficial the state rent Pedro Martinez, no, not that one, the CEO of the Chicago Public College system, to develop into commissioner of the state Division of Elementary and Secondary Schooling.
The advice by the state Board of Elementary and Secondary Schooling, now goes to state Schooling Secretary Patrick Tutwiler for his choice. If Tutwiler approves, Martinez would change Jeffrey Riley, who resigned in March. The board picked him over candidates from Texas and Michigan.
Martinez, who the Chicago faculty board voted in December to fireside with out trigger, would come into Massachusetts at a time when the Washington regime is threatening to withhold cash from states, like Massachusetts, that also consider in instructional notions corresponding to variety and fairness.
Martinez, then a state schooling official in Nevada, was a finalist for the place of Boston faculty superintendent in 2015. He stunned some College Committee members by saying he could not consider how far Boston faculties had fallen for the reason that days of Thomas Payzant. The committee, and Mayor Walsh, supplied the job to Tommy Chang, who left simply three years later.
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