Starr's Hire is a Broad Academy Graduate

The Montgomery County Board of Education Appointed Dr. Kimberly Statham as Deputy Superintendent on Superintendent Joshua Starr's recommendation.  Ms. Statham is a graduate of the Broad Superintendent's Academy.  MCPS has sent a number of administrators to the Broad Superintendent's Academy over the last few years.  

Maryland's new State Superintendent is also a Broad Academy graduate. 

Here's a guide for parents to acquaint them with the academy.

A Parent Guide to the Broad Foundation’s training programs and education policies

The question I ask is why should Eli Broad and Bill Gates have more of a say as to what goes on in my child’s classroom than I do? ...

PG Superintendent E-mails Parents!

The Washington Post reports that Prince George's County Public Schools has a real Tech-Savvy Superintendent! 

The Washington Post: For Hite and Prince George's schools, a smooth year, for a change

...Hite has also worked to be accessible to students and parents. He carries a BlackBerry and tries to respond to every parent who e-mails him -- usually about 50 a day, he said...

A far cry from MCPS where the Superintendent doesn't even give parents access to his e-mail address.  Instead the MCPS website shows his assistant's e-mail address. 


MCPS Superintendent Jerry Weast only makes his personal e-mail address known to other superintendents.

Any MCPS parents ever received an e-mail from Superintendent Weast in the last 11 years?