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Senior Military, Corporate and Education Executives Selected for Superintendents Academy

They say "Broad" rhymes with "road." I say it rhymes with "toad."
Here is the list of new Broad toads:



• Robert Avossa
  Chief Strategy and Accountability Officer
  Charlotte-Mecklenburg Schools, North Carolina


• Mark Brown
  Comptroller and Chief Financial Officer, Air Force Mobility Command U.S. Air Force


• Mike Miles
  Superintendent, Harrison School District, Colorado


• Judy Peppler
  President, Qwest Communications, Oregon


• Chris Barbic
  Chief Executive Officer, YES Prep Schools, Texas


• Patty MacCormack
  Chief Academic Officer, Hartford Public Schools, Connecticut


• Mike Oates
  Director, Joint Improvised Explosive Device Defeat Organization


• Rick Richardson
  Chief, Plans Division, U.S. European Command Plans and Operations Center
  U.S. Army




Press Release

LOS ANGELES, /PRNewswire-USNewswire/
-- Three high-ranking
military officers, a telecom executive and four experienced educators have
been selected to participate in The 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 top
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 executives with
non-education backgrounds as well as successful high-level educators.
Participants keep their jobs while attending extended weekend sessions
across the country.

The Broad Superintendents Academy has trained more working superintendents
in large urban school districts than any other national training program.

Since the academy was founded in 2002, graduates have filled 71
superintendent positions and 101 senior school district executive positions
nationwide, including 36 percent of all external superintendent openings in
large urban districts in the past two years.

Two-thirds of Broad
Superintendents Academy graduates who are currently serving as
superintendents for three or more years are outperforming comparison groups
in raising student achievement on state reading and math exams, closing
achievement gaps and raising graduation rates.

"The largest public school systems are the size of Fortune 500 companies,
when you consider budget, number of employees, and number of facilities,"
said Eli Broad, founder of The Eli and Edythe Broad Foundation, which funds
The Broad Center. "We need superintendents who have effective CEO-level
skills and who believe that their goal is to provide a world-class education
that enables every child to compete successfully in the 21st century."

The Broad Superintendents Academy's tenth class includes high-ranking Air
Force and Army officers -- a three-star Army general who is the director of
a Pentagon agency, a senior officer who oversees a $20 billion budget, and
another who leads military programs supporting 100,000 service members. The
2011 class also includes a Qwest Communications executive fromPortland, Ore.,
the CEO of a high-performing charter management organization in Houston, a
former military officer and diplomat to Poland and Russia now serving as a
superintendent in Colorado Springs, Colo., and career educators currently
serving in cabinet-level positions in districts in Charlotte, N.C. and Hartford, Conn.

"We need the very best leaders to address the crisis in our public schools
and ensure every student in every school receives an education that prepares
him or her for life," said John Simpson, The Broad Superintendents Academy's
superintendent-in-residence and former superintendent of Norfolk Public
Schools in Virginia. "By participating in the Academy, these executives are
all making a commitment to use their proven leadership and management skills
to take on a new challenge as an urban school district CEO."

A list of participants and full biographies are available here, and photos are available upon request.

Upon graduating, this year's new class will join the ranks of academy alumni
who are serving in senior school district roles across the country.
Graduates of the program currently work as district or state superintendents
in 43 cities across 25 states.

Broad Superintendents Academy graduates who were recently appointed to state
or district superintendent positions include 2006 graduate John Deasy, who
will become the superintendent of the Los Angeles Unified School District in
April. In December, 2003 graduate Linda Lane was named superintendent of
Pittsburgh Public Schools, and 2004 alum Christopher Cerf was selected as
New Jersey Education Commissioner. In North Carolina, 2009 academy fellow
and retired Brig. Gen.Anthony Tata was recently named superintendent of the
Wake County Public School System, after serving as chief operating officer
in D.C. Public Schools.

*The Broad Superintendents Academy* is a 10-month executive management
training program run by The Broad Center to prepare talented executives to
lead urban public school systems. Participants of the academy attend
extended weekend sessions while keeping their full-time jobs. The academy
then helps place graduates in urban school districts and also provides
extensive on-the-job support. For more information, or to apply for the 2012
class, please visit www.broadacademy.org.

*The Broad Center for the Management of School Systems *is a nonprofit
organization dedicated to raising student achievement by recruiting,
training and supporting executive talent from across America to become the
next generation of urban school district leaders. The Broad Center 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. For
more information, please visit www.broadeducation.org.




— Broad Foundation
Press Release
2011-02-08
http://www.prnewswire.com/news-releases/senior-military-corporate-and-education-executives-selected-for-superintendents-academy-115561524.html

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