Former Mississippi Superintendent of Education Dr. Carey Wright will be the interim Maryland Superintendent of Education. The Maryland Department of Education issued the following statement:
The State Board voted unanimously on Wednesday evening to appoint Dr. Carey Wright as the interim State Superintendent of Schools for the remainder of the current term through June 30, 2024. Dr. Wright will begin her service as State Superintendent by October 23, 2023, pending the completion of onboarding logistics.
Most recently, Dr. Wright served for nine years as the State Superintendent of Schools in Mississippi leading successful educational reform efforts that guided Mississippi to lead the nation in improving student achievement outcomes. She has consistently demonstrated an ability to build consensus by developing critical relationships with key stakeholders to achieve results.
Under Dr. Wright’s leadership, Mississippi’s Quality Counts grade for education improved from an F to a C, improving its ranking from 50th to 35th. Her work reform efforts to improve literacy instruction for children Pre-K through third grade produced significant improvements in literacy rates in Mississippi, with the largest gains in 4th grade literacy on the National Assessment for Educational Progress (NAEP).
“I am thrilled to welcome Dr. Carey Wright as Maryland’s Interim State Superintendent. She is an exceptional leader who will guide Maryland’s education system into its new chapter,” said Governor Wes Moore. “Dr. Wright brings exemplary expertise to this role and I am confident that she will be a dedicated leader committed to transparency, accountability, and partnership to improve education outcomes in every corner of Maryland, just as this state deserves.”
Dr. Wright has long been an enthusiastic advocate for early childhood education and in Mississippi implemented the first publicly funded Early Learning Collaborative program, which earned the state recognition from the National Institute for Early Education Research as one of only seven states in the nation that meet all or most quality standards for early childhood education.
Dr. Wright also brings to the position decades of service as a Maryland educator with stints in Prince George’s, Howard, and Montgomery County Public Schools as a teacher, principal, director of special education, and associate superintendent. Prior to serving as Superintendent in Mississippi, Dr. Wright served as the Chief Academic Officer in DC Public Schools. Dr. Wright obtained her bachelor’s, master’s, and doctoral degrees from the University of Maryland, College Park.
“Dr. Wright is a Maryland educator and a national leader of education reform. She has the experience and expertise to lead Maryland through implementation of the Blueprint for Maryland’s Future and through our state’s commitment to educational equity and improving outcomes for all students,” said State Board President Clarence Crawford. “We are confident in her ability to lead our school system through this transition period, to be focused on transparency and accountability, and to continue building towards the improvements in results in our schools that we all know are necessary.”
Dr. Wright will receive a salary at an annual rate of $350,000, which will be prorated to the amount of time she serves from now through June 30, 2024. The joint State Board and MSDE Transition Team will support Dr. Wright as she is onboarded, and the national search for a permanent State Superintendent of Schools will continue in the coming months.
15 comments:
The Yankee returns-
Ethics...Ethics....we don' need no stinkin Ethics.
The statistics about improving MS schools are all bullshit.
Bullshit is the new truth, and vice versa.
Well she will feel right at home. Maryland, specifically Baltimore, is in as bad shape as Jackson. Difference is the burnt out trap houses in Baltimore are still worth like $200k!
wonder if she will improve their graduation rate too, simply by making it significantly easier to actually graduate.
In addition to taking complete credit for the hard work and dedication of legions of people in the early childhood world
ya know......leadership
I knew a HR VP who always took someone's word for his/her accomplishments and resume bullet points. Never ran backgrounds or made appropriate confidential inquiries.
She got fired after the fourth hire.
Anybody who has watched, listened to or sat in a room with this woman knows she's expert at one thing - running her mouth, non-stop.
Maryland deserves her.
"...pending the completion of onboarding logistics." That's EdD/PhD speak for "moving."
I guess that she never watched all episodes of The Wire.
@3:59
These people don't move anywhere, they rent apartments and go home on the weekends
“Ethics...Ethics....we don' need no stinkin Ethics.”
Not a fan of Wright, but what’s unethical about taking a new job?
The reason she got paid $320,000 a year (highest public salary in MS) was to force all the underlings at all levels of the DOE to look the other way and report data that was completely bogus in order to "improve" (on paper and in the press) the schools. It's all a charade. Now she'll get paid even more to bring their system up to a C through sheer audacity to threaten everyone who doesn't keep their mouth shut.
The kids get better grades, are promoted, and graduate (even though they rarely actually attend or respect teachers). Parents are happy their child is "succeeding". All employees feel more secure in the funding levels of their school will remain or increase... and all the politicians get to draft off the bullshit "success" of the school system.
Everyone in the system is happy, even knowing it's all horseshit... except the taxpayer who are getting financially fleeced like the sheep they are.
Tate Reeves is a prime example, but I do agree that Mississippi should eliminate its Income Tax.
Isn't Maryland where she came from when Mississippi hired her? That's the state where several people live who this woman contracted with when she first got here.
Well that grandkids retirement did not last long. I am sure she will advance MD education system as much as she advanced MS educational system.
The higher education cartel takes care of its own.
I can't speak directly about Dr. Wright, but my wife is a middle school teacher and on the front lines, we did see improvements. Nothing from up high, it came from hard work with the students and parents. I do think they were over tested. Bush's 'no child left behind' is still hurting, does no one understand the bell curve? You have a year with regular kids, a year with over achievers, but then you have a year with under achievers. It is no ones fault. Are they are not going to be doctors and lawyers? No, they are going to be plumbers and construction workers and there is nothing wrong with that (we need those!). This push to think every kid wants to be a programmer is a joke, wasted resources.
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