Maryland Board of Education won’t renew state superintendent’s contract

The Maryland Board of Education will not renew the contract of state Superintendent Mohammed Choudhury, who was hired two years ago from Texas with little executive experience to overhaul the Department of Education and shepherd a historic $3.8 billion program to transform the state’s public education system. according to two people with knowledge of the situation.

Leaders of the Board of Education did not immediately respond to a query about the contract, nor did Choudhury.One of the people said that members of the Board of Education, who brought Choudhury to Maryland in 2021, had decided that he was not the right person for the job because of his inability to maintain relationships with people in Maryland’s education world or be transparent about the department’s work.

The decision was made this week after a series of news stories about Choudhury and comments made in the last week by Gov. Wes Moore who, when asked by reporters about Choudhury’s tenure, did not give a full endorsement and said he was not satisfied with the results of Choudhury’s work so far. Last weekend, Moore told Fox45 News, “I want transparency, I want accountability, and I want a superintendent that believes in it and can deliver it.

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