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June 9, 2008

Update: No Regents' vote on new superintendent needed

PROVIDENCE -- The state Department of Education has determined that prospective superintendent Thomas M. Brady is eligible to receive a superintendent’s certificate, according to a spokesman for the education commissioner.

Today, the Rhode Island Board of Regents for Elementary and Secondary Education was supposed to vote on whether to grant Brady a waiver from the certificate, but Commissioner Peter McWalters told the board that no action was necessary because Brady apparently has the credentials to satisfy the state regulations.

The state educators’ certification office has yet to approve Brady’s request for certification, but education department spokesman Elliot Krieger said he expects that the board will act quickly since Brady is scheduled to arrive here in mid-July.

“The Regents don’t have to do anything,” Krieger said today. “The certification office has to review the waiver. Brady does seem to meet the qualifications.”

Brady, who is interim superintendent of the Philadelphia school district, has a non-traditional resume. After a 25-year career in the Army, Brady was appointed chief executive officer of the Fairfax, Va., school district. In 2004, he enrolled in the Broad Center, a nationally recognized program that trains military and private CEOs to become urban school leaders. The state Department of Education apparently considers the one-year Broad program as roughly equivalent to a graduate degree in education.

-- Journal staff writer Linda Borg

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