"The Milwaukee School Board voted unanimously Friday to elect Philadelphia native Gregory Thornton as the next superintendent of Milwaukee Public Schools, despite the candidate's history of personal bankruptcy and questions that have been raised about his ethics.
The 9-0 vote, which came just after 7 p.m., will likely secure Thornton as the next chief of the state's largest school district, at a starting salary of $260,000 for a two-year term that will begin July 1.
The other candidates for the superintendent position had included Stacy Scott of Montgomery County Public Schools in Maryland and Robert Alfaro of Clark County School District in Las Vegas, but Alfaro withdrew his application from the School Board's consideration Friday because of personal reasons, according to the MPS Office of Board Governance."
The 9-0 vote, which came just after 7 p.m., will likely secure Thornton as the next chief of the state's largest school district, at a starting salary of $260,000 for a two-year term that will begin July 1.
The other candidates for the superintendent position had included Stacy Scott of Montgomery County Public Schools in Maryland and Robert Alfaro of Clark County School District in Las Vegas, but Alfaro withdrew his application from the School Board's consideration Friday because of personal reasons, according to the MPS Office of Board Governance."