...and I want to thank the Governor's office for putting out a press release in advance, rather than leaving us to scramble to figure out who the new person is at the next Board meeting.
Governor Healey has appointed former Gateway Regional1 superintendent Kristen Smidy to the Board of Elementary and Secondary Education. Before she was superintendent in Gateway, a position she just left at the end of this past school year, she was the principal of Hampshire Regional. She now works for NEASC.
Think: rural, regional, western Mass
She's also been leader and outsized voice for the needs of small rural districts.
She's a good egg, and this is a good pick! And I suspect she isn't going to be quiet, either!
She replaces Michael Moriarty (of Holyoke). Thus, while the Board is still wildly overbalanced in terms of inside 128 to outside 128 (with two from Worcester plus Smidy), at least we haven't actually lost ground on that!
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