Robert Runcie the new Broward superintendent | Naked Politics
A businessman turned educator with strong ties to the Obama administration is Broward’s new schools chief. The B…
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Businessman Robert Runcie named Broward County’s new school superintendent
The School Board’s selection of former businessman Robert Runcie as Broward’s next school superintendent….
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Runcie, 50, a top-ranking Chicago schools administrator who has never been a teacher or a principal, said his first priority would be student achievement. And in order to focus on students, he said the district had to restore public trust and improve its business practices.
So, it’s highly likely Runcie, Duncan, and Coleman are BFF.
2. The Duncan-Runcie relationship was the foundation of the PROMISE program in Broward County and why the Sheriff’s Department was soooooo cooperative in not reporting crimes.
Robert Runcie – Education Week Leaders To Learn From
The Florida K-12 district was at odds with its 95 charter schools before Robert Runcie came along with an agenda…
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Superintendent Runcie knows first-hand how a high-quality education can transform a person’s life. Born in Jamaica, he moved to the United States as a young boy and became the first member of his family to attend college, graduating from Harvard University and earning an MBA from Northwestern University. He later founded a management and technology consulting company and held several strategic leadership positions with Chicago Public Schools, including serving as its Chief Information Officer, Chief Administrative Officer, Chief Area Instructional Officer and Chief of Staff to the Board of Education.
Superintendent Runcie led BCPS efforts to become a national model for ending zero tolerance policies for non-violent offences in schools. With the support of the School Board and through collaborative community efforts, BCPS has instituted new, effective practices for handling student behavior incidents, without resorting to law enforcement involvement. Student-related arrests are down by 65% since Runcie’s arrival.
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CPS executive leaves district for a new post in Florida
A Chicago Public Schools executive who was once the district’s chief administrative officer and was most rec….
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. . .his name was floated around at one point as a possible choice for interim superintendent and then as a possible schools chief under Mayor Rahm Emanuel.
Former Mayor Richard Daley chose Chicago Community Trust’s Terry Mazany as interim superintendent and Emanuel eventually chose an outsider, Jean-Claude Brizard, as CEO of the district. Most recently Runcie was named chief of staff to the Board of Education.
Runcie leaving Chicago for Broward – Substance News
Reporting on Chicago Education, Political, and Labor Union News that focuses on corruption, crony capitalism, an…
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Some are hopeful that Runcie’s connection to the Obama administration through Duncan will draw some benefits to the district and raise Broward’s profile in the national discourse on school reform.
Throughout his interviews, Runcie said he wants Broward to serve as a national model for what’s done right. “We all need to do this together,” he said. “There’s not really one Superman in America, but there are super communities.”
Superintendent Runcie and Secretary of Education Arne Duncan worked together to use Broward County Public Schools as a model setting for the new social justice program. A press release from Duncan’s USED. Note the reference to Broward County Schools in Duncan’s press release about reducing statistics of school suspensions. Note that the press release is dated September 30, 2015, just days before his resignation as Secretary of Education, October 2, 2015.
Investing in Teachers Instead of Prisons | U.S. Department of Education
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There’s the young boy from Broward County Schools, who racked up almost thirty behavior referrals and received his first battery charge as a seven-year-old, after having an anxiety attack following the death of his grandfather.
Robert Runcie | The Broad Center
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He shares alumni status with Broad Hall of Famers such as Superintendent John Deasey of Los Angelos (remember he threw the technology contract to Pearson) and was passed over for the job of CEO of CPS, which later went to Broad Superintendent Barbara Byrd Bennett of Chicago (remember she went to prison for a bribery scheme).
4. A pattern of Obama-Duncan cronyism operating recklessly and to the detriment of students can be observed in the administration’s appointment and financial support of Robert Runcie’s brother, James Runcie, as CEO of Student Financial Services in the USED. James Runcie also attended Harvard (like Obama, Duncan, and his brother) and was appointed to the Federal Student Aid program in September 2009 and became its CEO in 2011 — the same year Robert became the superintendent at Broward County
Days before leaving his position as Secretary of Education in 2015, Arne Duncan secretly reappointed James Runcie as Federal Student Aid Boss despite credible citations of harming students.
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Education Department Secretly Reappoints Top Official Accused Of Harming St…
James Runcie oversees a division that has consistently failed to protect students from allegedly abusive loan co…
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James Runcie abruptly resigned from that position in May of 2017 (months after Obama administration ended) when Secretary of Education DeVos asked him to testify to Congress about improper student aid payments made from his office.
Federal Student Aid Boss Runcie Resigns
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James Runcie, who led the Office of Federal Student Aid for the past seven years as chief operating officer, abr…
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His secret bonuses couldn’t have helped the budget for his office, either.
Report: Education Dept. Official Received Secret Bonuses Despite Losing Bil…
A senior Education Department official reportedly received hundreds of thousands of dollars in off-the-books bon…
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In general, it seems the Runcies were acting as agents of Arne Duncan to support the Obama administration’s agenda for selective social justice.
In my opinion, Robert should stop deceiving himself into believing he can remain as Broward County superintendent. People are already connecting the dots back to his Chicago connections and corrupt company of Broad Academy alumni. How can Runcie pretend that grieving parents will ignore his central role in developing the PROMISE program that was obviously inadequate for managing students with behavior disorders who are emancipated?
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