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12 Military Generals, School District Executives, Entrepreneurs Chosen for National School Superintendent Training Program

Jack Gerson Comment:
Great news, everyone. The Eli Broad
Superintendents Academy has just announced the
latest batch of participants in the Broad
Superintendents Academy school district boss
training (alumni include all three of "our own"
California State Administrators --Randolph
Ward, Kimberley Statham, and Vincent Matthews).
This new bunch is the pick of the litter. As
today's Broad Center press release (below)
proudly announces, it "includes the highest
number in the academy's eight-year history of
high-ranking military generals". Also, some
high-powered entrepreneurs (no doubt awash with
success, as is so much of the U.S. corporate
world these days).

Yes, soon there will be 12 more Broad
Superintendents Academy alumni keen to "make a
difference in the field of public education" by
closing school libraries and eliminating
electives; chasing out veteran teachers;
outsourcing to test prep mills, textbook
companies, software vendors and other high-
priced "consultants"; and holding teachers,
students and schools accountable for student
scores on high stakes standardized
tests.

News Release--The Broad Foundation
12 Military Generals, School District Executives, Entrepreneurs Chosen for National School Superintendent Training Program

For Immediate Release
January 14, 2009

Contact: Erica Lepping

310-954-5053

LOS ANGELES--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Twelve prominent
leaders from across the country, including
high-ranking military officers, entrepreneurs
and education executives, have been selected to
participate in the 2009 Broad Superintendents
Academy, The Broad Center for the Management of
School Systems announced today.

The Broad (rhymes with “road”) Superintendents
Academy is a 10-month executive management
training program run by The Broad Center to
prepare prominent leaders from education,
military, business, nonprofit and government
sectors to lead urban public school systems.
The Broad Superintendents Academy is the only
program in the country that recruits and trains
non-traditional superintendent candidates as
well as stand-out career educators. To date,
graduates of the program have filled 53
superintendent positions and 70 senior school
district executive positions.

Education executives from Chicago Public
Schools, the Claremont Unified School District,
Calif., Montgomery County Public Schools, Md.
and the New York City Department of Education
are among this year’s class, which includes a
sitting superintendent, a community
superintendent and incoming U.S. Secretary of
Education Arne Duncan’s former chief of staff.

This year’s class also includes the highest
number in the academy’s eight-year history of
high-ranking military generals who want to make
a difference in the field of public education.
For example, the class includes a general who
oversaw worldwide airlift, logistics and
communications support for the president, vice
president and other senior U.S. leaders and a
brigadier general who served as deputy
commanding general of the 10th Mountain
Division and the Joint Task Force of 25,000
U.S. military members in Afghanistan.

A full list of participants can be found here.
Photos are available upon request.

“These 12 leaders have deep experience leading
large, complex organizations and motivating
employees to overcome tough challenges,” said
Eli Broad, founder of The Eli and Edythe Broad
Foundation, which funds The Broad Center.
“There is no better use of their skills than to
effectively lead large, urban school districts
to improve learning opportunities for all
children.”

Following a rigorous review and selection
process, only 2 percent of this year’s
applicants were accepted into the program,
which has grown more selective in recent years.

Participants in The Broad Superintendents
Academy keep their current jobs and attend six
extended-weekend training sessions covering
CEO-level skills in education, finance,
management, operations and organizational
systems. This year’s sessions will be held in
Los Angeles, Long Beach, Calif., Houston,
Denver, Aldine, Texas, and Washington, D.C. The
Broad Center covers tuition, travel and all
program expenses. At the conclusion of the
program, The Broad Center will help place
participants in urban school districts as
superintendents and senior executives.

The 2009 class is the eighth to be trained by
The Broad Superintendents Academy. Nearly 70
percent of the graduates of the first six
classes have been hired around the country as
superintendents or school district executives
or have been promoted into those positions.
Three-quarters of them are still working in the
same, similar, or higher positions. Of all
large urban school districts that conducted
external searches for new superintendents
between 2005 and 2008, nearly one-fifth filled
their positions with graduates of The Broad
Superintendents Academy.

The Broad Superintendents Academy has trained
more working superintendents in large urban
school districts than any other training
program. Graduates of the program currently
work as superintendents in 37 cities across 23
states. For a list of cities, please visit
http://www.broadacademy.org/fellows/map.html.

Based on analysis of publicly available student
achievement data for Broad Superintendents
Academy graduates who have served as
superintendents for three or more testing
cycles, 100 percent are outperforming
comparison groups in reducing the percentage of
students at the lowest proficiency level in
reading and math, and 86 percent are meeting or
exceeding proficiency standards in reading and
math faster than comparison groups.

The Broad Center for the Management of School
Systems is funded by The Eli and Edythe Broad
Foundation, a national venture philanthropy
established by entrepreneur and philanthropist
Eli Broad to advance entrepreneurship for the
public good in education, science and the arts.
The Broad Foundation’s education work is
focused on dramatically improving urban K-12
public education through better governance,
management, labor relations and competition.
Eli Broad is a renowned business leader who
founded two Fortune 500 companies, SunAmerica
Inc. and KB Home. For more information, please
visit www.broadcenter.org or
www.broadfoundation.org.

— Press Release
Business Wire/Broad Superintendents Academy
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http://www.businesswire.com/portal/site/google/?ndmViewId=news_view&newsId=20090114005320&newsLang=en

— Press Release
Eli Broad Superintendents Academy
2009-01-14
http://www.businesswire.com/portal/site/google/?ndmViewId=news_view&newsId=20090114005320&newsLang=en

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