Jeremy Grant-Skinner, Watlington’s deputy for talent, strategy and culture, has announced his resignation. His last day is July 10.
in the Philadelphia School District, with Superintendent Tony B. Watlington Sr. shaking up the way schools are grouped and supervised, abolishing networks for innovative and high-needs schools in favor of neighborhood-based clusters.The 13 networks will now all be geography-based.
Monique Braxton, district spokesperson, said the change was made to “center schools as the unit of change,” and matches the way large districts such as New York, Los Angeles Unified and Chicago group their schools. Schools previously in the innovation and acceleration networks “will receive similar support” to what
A search will be conducted to find Grant-Skinner’s replacement, but in the interim, Braxton said, the offices of equity, information technology, and talent will report to Watlington; the Office of Professional Learning will report to Dawson.
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