Grier names new chief of high schools, again
HISD Superintendent Terry Grier has hired a new chief officer over high schools to replace David Simmons, who abruptly announced his resignation last month, citing "unforeseen personal circumstances." The new high school chief, Aaron Spence, comes from the same school district — Chesterfield County Public Schools in Virginia — as the middle school chief, Dallas Dance, whom Grier hired in March.
Spence was the director of curriculum and instruction and chief academic officer for theChesterfield County school system, which is less than one-third the size of HISD with about 60,000 students and is mostly Anglo. Spence and Dance were both selected this year for the Association for Supervision and Curriculum Development's 2010 class of Emerging Leaders. According to ASCD, the programs's goal is "to prepare young, ambitious