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Wednesday, June 8, 2011

Critics target growing army of Broad Academy leadersCATALYST CHICAGO :: News

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Ed Week: Critics target growing army of Broad Academy leadersThe nation’s three biggest districts have Broad-trained executives in top leadership positions.by Christina A. Samuels, Education WeekJune 8, 2011

Billionaire businessman Eli Broad, one of the country’s most active philanthropists, founded the Broad Superintendents Academy in 2002 with an extraordinarily optimistic goal: Find leaders from both inside and outside education, train them, and have them occupying the superintendencies in a third of the 75 largest school districts—all in just two years.

Now hosting its 10th class, the Los Angeles-based program hasn’t quite reached that goal, but it’s close. The nation’s three biggest districts have Broad-trained executives in top leadership positions: Shael Polakow-Suransky, the chief academic officer in New York City; John E. Deasy, the superintendent of Los Angeles Unified; and Jean-Claude Brizard, who became the chief executive officer of the Chicago schools last month.

In all, 21 of the nation’s 75 largest districts now have superintendents or other highly
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