FORT LAUDERDALE, FLA. (WSVN) - The Broward County Public School Board has voted for Dr. Vickie Cartwright to hold the title of the district’s superintendent.
The 7-2 vote was made just before 1 p.m., Wednesday.
Dr. Cartwright and Michael Gaal were the two candidates being considered for the top position.
With that vote, the Broward County School Board chose the next superintendent to lead the district.
“We are so excited at this time to welcome and introduce Dr. Vickie Cartwright as our new superintendent of schools,” said Chair of Board Laurie Rich Levinson.
Dr. Cartwright will drop the interim title she’s held for nearly seven months, becoming the first woman to head up the nation’s sixth largest public school system.
She replaces Dr. Robert Runcie who resigned last year.
“I am so grateful to this board for your ongoing support, and I look forward to continuing to work with you and ensuring that our students are successful and that we keep students as the primary conversation of our district,” said Cartwright.
She’s got major issues besides educating students and working with teachers and staff.
A Florida house budget proposal counts Broward County Schools as one of 12 to face a financial punishment for mask mandates, a loss of $200 million that would be given to districts that did not have mask requirements.
Certain classroom conversations involving sexual orientation and gender identity could also be banned in the name of parental rights.
“We’re now going to create an environment to where our students continue to feel excluded instead of included is dangerous. That’s not the America I know, and I’m very concerned about that,” said Cartwright.
The details of her contract, salary and length of contract are yet to be negotiated.
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