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Alberto Carvalho Turns Down Top Schools Job In New York City

C.M. Guerrero
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Miami Herald
Alberto Carvalho, 51, has been offered a job in the Big Apple. He has been MDCPS superintendent for almost ten years.

Miami-Dade Schools Superintendent Alberto Carvalho has turned down a job as head of New York City schools.

Following a dramatic School Board meeting, Carvalho said he would not accept New York Mayor Bill de Blasio’s offer to become schools chancellor, which would have made him chief of the nation’s largest school system.

“I just don’t know how to break a promise to a child, how to break a promise to a community,” said Carvalho, speaking Thursday at an emergency School Board meeting that had been called to discuss the job offer. “That has weighed on me over the last 24 hours like nothing has weighed on me before.”

Read more at our news partner, The Miami Herald.

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