New Superintendent for Boston Public Schools Announced

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The Boston School Committee selected Los Angeles administrator Tommy Chang as the city’s next superintendent Tuesday, in a 5-2 vote and nearly year-and-a-half long search.

The Boston Globe reported that the 39-year-old has been working for the last three years with more than 130 low-achieving schools as an instructional superintendent in the Los Angeles Unified School District’s Intensive Support and Innovation Center.

The other two finalists were Guadalupe Guerrero, deputy superintendent for instruction, innovation and social justice for the San Francisco Unified School District; and superintendent in residence for Nevada, Pedro Martinez. Martinez received 2 of the 7 candidate votes, per WBUR. Dana Bedden, superintendent of schools in Richmond, pulled out of the running just before the meeting.

WHDH reported that Mayor Walsh was in favor of Chang, who spent six years as a biology teacher at Compton High School, a low-achieving school in Los Angeles County with significant poverty. He is expected to start by July 1.