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Executive director of curriculum and instruction: Amie Marsh, recently the principal of Germantown Middle School
Executive director of equity and diversity: Myke Collins, recently the director of leadership
Executive director of learning and support: Tracie Scott, recently an instructional leadership director
Executive director of professional standards: Lauren Prater, recently advisor for the office of professional standards
Executive director of exceptional children and health services: Deborah Harris, recently the director of exceptional children
Director of leadership: Angela Nichols, recently the principal of Willow Oaks Elementary School
Director of talent acquisition, induction and development: Brian Ingram, recently the principal of Dunbar Elementary School
But other historically Black schools, such as Paul Laurence Dunbar Elementary in St. Louis, have not been so lucky. Dunbar Elementary, named after the famous Black poet and writer, will no longer physically enroll students. District leaders said they want to convert Dunbar to a virtual school beginning in August 2021. This led parents, community members and activists to protest the superintendent and school board’s decision, asserting that the physical closing of the school removes a key pillar in the historic Black Jeff-Vander-Lou neighborhood.
Two urban schools that I have researched, both renowned for educating low-income Black students, were also recently shuttered. Gentrification and the emergence of charter schools contributed to an enrollment decline at Whitefoord Elementary in Atlanta, leading it to close its doors in 2017 after serving the community for 93 years. Farragut Elementary in St. Louis - also located in The Ville - closed in May 2021. The rationale once more: de