Long -time curator Camden Schools leaves the district in June.
Katrina McCombs, a career teacher Camden, who has been a curator of the fighting state district for years, will work as an assistant to the Education Commissioner at the Education Department in New Jersey. Supervises early childhood services.
“This decision was not made slightly; but I believe that after seven years of conducting the district through both areas with great progress and times of challenges, it was the right time for me to consider the passage,” McCcombs wrote in a letter announcing her departure. “In this position I plan to continue to talk for strong, fair educational opportunities for students in our entire state, including our great city of Camden.”
According to New Jersey Globe, McCombs’ departure occurs after several leading Camden officials, including the mayor of Victor Carstarphen, called her overthrow in autumn. Officials said they believe that Camden schools need a recent field.
Carstarphen thanked McCcombs in a statement and called her “a friend for his whole life, who cares about our hometown very much.”
The mayor of Camden praised McCcombs for leading the city leadership in the scope of signing up before K, leadership during the Covid-19 pandemic and a shepherd of $ 500 million in recent school development projects. He said that “she strengthened her heritage, making a lasting and influential contribution to the city of Camden.”
Kevin Dehmer, a Commissioner for Education in New Jersey, quoted “exemplary McCcombs leadership” and said that he would be “an advantage of the Early Childhood Services Department.”
District officials stated that the departure of McCombs comes as a result of a “mutual agreement” between her and the state.
McCombs, from Camden and graduate of Camden High, will serve until the end of her current agreement, which expires on June 30. He receives USD 226,973 per year for managing the school system about 7,000 students in customary public schools, and more in municipal Renaissance schools, which are financed publicly, but independently.
Her 30-year term began as a pre-school teacher in the district. In 2018, she was appointed a superintendent and received a indefinite job in 2019.
McCombs, in its announcement of the Camden community, advertised achievements, including a higher graduate indicator and a lower resignation rate, expanding career programs and technical education, opening the recent Camden High and a stronger financial position.
Despite this, district students reach much below the average academic state, and McCcombs had to survive significant unevenness, including a solemn budget deficit and closing three schools due to a decrease in enrollment.
The district spokesman said that McCcombs did not have immediate commentary.
Pamela Clark, president of Camden Education Association, thanked McCombs for her service.
“We have always shared mutual commitment to the good of Camden’s children and improving our school system,” said Clark in a statement.
The replacement of McCombs will be elected by the Education Commissioner, with the consent of the State Council – the Camden School advisory council has nothing to say.
District officials said that the Education Department is called the transient curator Camden and will start looking for McCcombs.
Activist Camden, Vida Neil, a mighty supporter of McCcombs, said that she was worried about the future of the district in the lightweight of the McCcombs trip and the last movements of President Donald Trump to dismantle the Education Department.
“Education is now in trouble,” Neil said. “We don’t know who we’ll get.”
Reverend Tim Merrill of Imani Community Fellowship in Camden said that McCombs’ departure was “plunged into politics.”
“Until the control of the circle is based on a democratic process, in which people describe people who will conduct, the policy of the best good of our children always occupies a place in the policy of power,” said Merrill in a statement.
