The board unanimously agreed to hire Monique Felder as Montgomery’s interim superintendent. Felder mostly recently served as superintendent of Orange County schools in North Carolina before
Felder took her seat at the board table immediately after the vote. She will serve as interim superintendent at least through June. school system’s division of accelerated and enriched instruction. She eventually became director of interventions for the school system before departing in 2014 to become an executive director in the Office of the Deputy Superintendent for Teaching and Learning for Prince George’s County Public Schools.
“We are confident that her background in district leadership, instruction and administration makes her the right person to carry us through this transition and begin the work to rebuild trust among staff and the community, while we identify the next permanent superintendent,” Silvestre said in a statement.on Friday left her four-year term appointment about two years early after reaching a “mutually agreed separation” with the school board.