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ODE administrator resigns
A top level administrator announced Wednesday he will resign from the Ohio Department of Education, the fourth to do so this year.
Paolo DeMaria, associate superintendent of the Office of School Options and Finance, has accepted a position as the vice chancellor of higher education. He announced his resignation in an email sent to ODE staff.
DeMaria follows state superintendent Susan Tave Zelman who announced In May that she resigned her position effective Dec. 1, after Gov. Ted Strickland publicly criticized her management of the ODE.
Mitch Chester, senior associate superintendent, resigned in January to take a position as state superintendent in Massachusetts. Executive Director of the Office of Community Schools also resigned in January to take a post with the Franklin County Educational Services Center.
So DeMaria is going to work in the office of higher education Chancellor Eric Fingerhut — the man Strickland called a “visionary leader” in between his jabs at Zelman and the type of leader he wants to see heading up the ODE.
As I mentioned yesterday, the turnover at the state level will likely affect local districts across the state in one way or another. Especially if it is a “visionary leader” like Fingerhut, who has proposed significant changes to Ohio’s higher education network to be implemented over the next four years.
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