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Anybody from the Orlando area familiar with Roy Brooks? He was just selected (among quite a bit of controversy) to be the new Superintendent of the Little Rock schools. I sort of wondered what his reputation was.
Info below from Arkansas Democrat Gazette 6-13-04:
Roy Gregory Brooks, a longtime Florida educator, was selected Friday by a divided Little Rock School Board as the districts next superintendent but only after board members rejected a last-ditch effort to give the permanent job to interim Superintendent Morris Holmes. Brooks, 53, retired June 1 as an area superintendent in the Orange County, Fla., school system that serves the Orlando area.
Brooks had been an area superintendent since 1998, first overseeing schools in a southern section of the county and, more recently, in charge of supervising and raising student performance in 28 of the countys lowest-achieving schools. Hes a 31-year educator with 21 years in Orange County. He also taught in the Naples and Sanford, Fla., areas.
Holmes, 64, a former principal at Central High School and more recently a superintendent for five years in the New Orleans School District, also applied for the job .
The votes on Holmes and Brooks capped more than two weeks of intense and sometimes angry lobbying by Concerned Citizens United, a grass-roots citizens group, that wanted Holmes to be hired or at least interviewed, for the job that he has held on a temporary basis since August. The group has called for various board members to resign and has talked of staging a student boycott of school in August.
Info below from Arkansas Democrat Gazette 6-13-04:
Roy Gregory Brooks, a longtime Florida educator, was selected Friday by a divided Little Rock School Board as the districts next superintendent but only after board members rejected a last-ditch effort to give the permanent job to interim Superintendent Morris Holmes. Brooks, 53, retired June 1 as an area superintendent in the Orange County, Fla., school system that serves the Orlando area.
Brooks had been an area superintendent since 1998, first overseeing schools in a southern section of the county and, more recently, in charge of supervising and raising student performance in 28 of the countys lowest-achieving schools. Hes a 31-year educator with 21 years in Orange County. He also taught in the Naples and Sanford, Fla., areas.
Holmes, 64, a former principal at Central High School and more recently a superintendent for five years in the New Orleans School District, also applied for the job .
The votes on Holmes and Brooks capped more than two weeks of intense and sometimes angry lobbying by Concerned Citizens United, a grass-roots citizens group, that wanted Holmes to be hired or at least interviewed, for the job that he has held on a temporary basis since August. The group has called for various board members to resign and has talked of staging a student boycott of school in August.
