Sep 10, 2008 11:09 pm US/Eastern
Carvalho Miami-Dade's Choice As Schools Boss
Has Yet To Accept The Offer
Deal Struck After Pinellas County Offered Carvalho Superintendent's Job
MIAMI (CBS4) ―
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Miami-Dade School Board Associate Superintendent Alberto Carvalho is negotiating with the Miami-Dade School Board to possibly become Rudy Crew's replacement as Superintendent of the 4th largest school system in the country.
CBS
On a fast-changing afternoon marked by repeated votes and confusion, the Miami-Dade school board named associate superintendent Alberto Carvalho as Dade's new schools boss, minutes after first naming one of his co-workers acting superintendent and hours after Pinellas County school officials also offered him their Superintendent's job. Carvalho has yet to accept either post.
The announcement came shortly after 5 p.m., even as reporters were telling South Floridians that the school board had named deputy superintendent Ofelia San Pedro as the acting superintendent, replacing Crew for the next 30 days.
The decision came just hours after the Miami Dade School Board approved a settlement with Superintendent Crew, paying him $297,000 in cash to end his tenure as chief of the nation's fourth largest school system. With benefits and other incentives, the total financial package to Crew is estimated to be $368,000.
The 5-3 vote came after heated arguments by opponents of Crew, who would have preferred to see the superintendent fired for cause and paid nothing.
Those voting in favor of the agreement: Board Chairman Augustin Barrera, Wilbert "Tee" Holloway, Solomon Stinson, Martin Karp and Perla Hantman. Those opposing the deal were Ana Rivas Logan, Marta Perez and Renier Diaz de la Portilla.
The agreement settles weeks of rancor between Crew and the board.
San Pedro was called upon to fill the top job temporarily while board members sought their next Superintendent, after it appeared the top choice, Carvalho, might accept the job offered to him by Pinellas county.
Wednesday, school officials there posted a news item on the district's website titled "School Board Names Alberto Carvalho As New Superintendent," reporting the board had voted 4-3 at an 11 a.m. workshop meeting to offer Carvalho the job.
However, it appears the offer may not have been formally accepted, because shortly after 5 p.m. Miami-Dade Public Schools spokesman John Schuster told
CBS4's Michael Williams that the district had offered the post to Carvalho.
The 43-year-old Carvalho was Miami-Dade's associate superintendent for intergovernmental affairs and was formerly the district's Public Information Officer.
He had been considered a front-runner to be successor to Crew even as school board members worked on a way to part company with the superintendent.
Carvalho attended Wednesday's school board meeting but would not comment on the Pinellas County post. He had also applied to be superintendent of Manatee County schools.
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