Millard Home II, pressured out of his job as Houston ISD superintendent when the Texas Schooling Company assumed management of the district final week, has landed one other management place.
Home was launched Wednesday as the brand new CEO and superintendent of Prince George’s County Public Faculties within the Washington D.C. space. College district govt Angela Alsobrooks described Home as a “dynamic, transformational, skilled chief” and praised his work in Houston, the place a number of low-performing faculties improved their educational scores throughout Home’s two years on the helm of the most important district in Texas.
“He has a well-rounded background that makes him the right match for our faculty system,” Alsobrooks stated.
The potential of a state takeover loomed over HISD when Home was employed in 2021, as a result of Texas Schooling Commissioner Mike Morath had introduced in 2019 his intention to exchange the district’s 9 elected trustees with a state-appointed board of managers, citing mismanagement and alleged criminal activity by trustees and a string of failing opinions of Wheatley Excessive College. HISD subsequently sued the state to dam that motion, however Morath and the TEA proceeded with the takeover final week after a favorable ruling earlier this 12 months by the Texas Supreme Courtroom.
Home was changed by former Dallas ISD superintendent Mike Miles as a part of the transition, however not with out receiving reward from an area academics’ union and Houston Mayor Sylvester Turner, who wrote in a Could 26 submit on Twitter that he wished to “apologize to him for a way the state handled him.” Greater than 40 HISD faculties failed to satisfy state educational requirements in 2019, whereas 9 of the district’s campuses acquired failing marks in 2022.
“Millard Home did an unbelievable job beneath some very troublesome circumstances,” Turner additionally wrote. “Houston ISD loss will likely be any individual’s acquire.”
Home, a local of Tulsa, Oklahoma, labored as a college administrator there and in Charlotte, N.C., earlier than later turning into the director of colleges for the Clarksville-Montgomery County College System in Tennessee. From there he was employed by HISD.
Home referenced his time in Houston throughout his introductory information convention Wednesday in Maryland, the place he’s succeeding retiring college district CEO Monica Goldson. He’s scheduled to start out July 1, in line with an announcement by Prince George’s County Public Faculties.
“I will likely be coming into this college system working intently over the subsequent 90 days with Dr. Goldson to make sure that I hear and I study,” Home stated. “I hung out going to 18 completely different communities within the Houston space to listen to from dad and mom, college students and group members round what it’s that they assume is essential.”
– Written by Adam Zuvanich
