Monday, January 31, 2022

Jack R. Smith Now Works for Same Search Firm Handling @mocoboe Superintendent Search #SmallWorld

Whenever the Montgomery County Board of Education needs a new superintendent they hire the same search firm.

Hazard, Young and Attea has been the search for for the Board of Education since at least 1999.  

Former Montgomery County Public Schools Superintendent Jack R. Smith now works for Hazard, Young, and Attea as a consultant.  

From Smith's bio

...He then served as Superintendent of Montgomery County Public Schools in Maryland for the next five years, overseeing a multi-billion-dollar budget, and guiding the school system through the COVID-19 pandemic as well as other complex and difficult situations. Additionally, he worked with staff to develop the Be Well 365 system to support student well being. He also designed and implemented an equity and achievement framework to increase access and opportunity and support learning for historically underserved populations...

https://hyasearch.com/profile/jack-smith/

4 comments:

  1. How lucky there is no such thing as conflict of interest in Montgomery County.

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  2. MoCo is morphing gradually
    Into a modern Emerald city
    Adorned with towers of glass
    And beggars hoping for pity.

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  3. There are other former MCPS administrators that work for the search firm: Shawn Joseph, Henry Johnson, and 1 more.

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  4. Ostensibly MoCo public officials cannot make a comfortable living on their meager salaries so they resort to moonlighting in order to make ends meet.

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