IPS chief lecturers officer a person of two finalists for Cleveland colleges CEO

The main lecturers officer for Indianapolis Community Colleges is one of two finalists in the search for the following chief government officer of the Cleveland Metropolitan University District. 

Warren Morgan, who joined IPS in May perhaps 2020, oversees curriculum and instruction for the district as a member of the government leadership crew. He formerly worked in Cleveland as an tutorial superintendent supervising the city’s turnaround universities.  

“There’s just an incredible opportunity to return dwelling and to be in a position to link and operate with so many excellent people that have invested in me, and we’ve invested in each and every other,” Morgan explained in a online video introduction on the Cleveland university district’s internet site. 

Rocky Torres, the assistant superintendent of student assistance products and services for Seattle Community Faculties, is the other finalist. Morgan did not straight away return a request for remark. 

Morgan was also a finalist in the superintendent lookup for New Haven Community Colleges in Connecticut final thirty day period. The district finalized the selection of its new superintendent, Madeline Negrón, this week. 

The Cleveland college district, with about 36,000 learners, programs to have a new superintendent announced by this thirty day period, according to a timeline on its site. 

Morgan has overseen academics for IPS as it recovers from pandemic mastering loss — the district’s acquire in statewide ILEARN testing scores for 2022 has brought students back roughly to pre-pandemic proficiency stages. 

Just before landing in Indianapolis, Morgan served as a high faculty principal in Chicago Public Schools and as the government director for Train for America in St. Louis. He also was chosen as a White Property Fellow and formerly taught science in St. Louis by means of TFA.  

Amelia Pak-Harvey handles Indianapolis and Marion County universities for Chalkbeat Indiana. Contact Amelia at [email protected].