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June 9, 2008

State board OK's Brady to serve as Prov. schools chief

The state Board of Regents for Elementary and Secondary Education has approved a special exception for Thomas M. Brady, selected as the new Providence schools superintendent, to take the position without having a doctoral degree.

Brady, who has been interim superintendent of the Philadelphia school district, meets most state requirements, except for not having attending a formal graduate program in education and not teaching in a public school.

Mayor David R. Cicilline sought a waiver from the Board of Regents on the grounds that Brady has significant experience -- some 25 years of military service and his decade-long career in top management positions in large urban public schools.

-- With reports from Journal staff writer Jennifer D. Jordan and Journal archival reports

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