Pearson Foundation grant sent Weast, Dale and Hatrick to Australia

In July of 2010, Superintendent Jerry Weast, Fairfax Superintendent Jack Dale, Loudon Superintendent Edgar Hatrick, and Alleghany Superintendent David Cox took a trip to Australia.

According to a May 21, 2010 Alleghany County Public Schools news release the Australia trip was July 7 -18, 2010, and was paid for by a grant from the The Pearson Foundation.

Superintendent Jerry Weast missed the July 8, 2010 Board of Education meeting.  MCPS Chief Operating Officer Larry Bowers sat in for Superintendent Weast at that meeting and said that the superintendent was "on leave this week."

Unlike Alleghany County Public Schools, it does not appear that MCPS' press office put out a press release announcing Superintendent Weast's selection for this trip. 

A video on The Pearson Foundation's YouTube site shows the attendees on the Australia trip, along with the fabulous locations and sites that they were treated to during this 12 day junket. 

The image at right shows Superintendent Jerry Weast traveling on a bus in the Pearson Foundation/AASA video.  (Who is the woman to his left? Is that his spouse?  If so, how was her travel funded?)

Click this link for the Pearson-Weast Timeline.

Also shown in this video:
Deborah Akers, Superintendent,  Mercer County Schools, West Virginia
Larry Price, Superintendent, Wilson County Schools, North Carolina
Lu Young, Superintendent,  Jessamine County Schools, Kentucky
Robert Slaby, Superintendent, Storey County Schools, Nevada
Mike Stewart, Superintendent, St. Genevieve Schools, Missouri
Daniel Fox, Superintendent, Pershing County Schools, Nevada