Tuesday, September 30, 2008

Breaking: Deasy Out in Prince Georges County

At this moment, Prince Georges County Schools Board Chair Verjeana M. Jacobs is apparently announcing that Superintendent John Deasy is leaving the district.

Having given the pitch perfect response to the publication of the circumstances surround his degree form the U of L; and having no trouble reading the handwriting on the wall, John Deasy told the Washington Post that he's stepping down from Prince Georges County schools and will be moving on the the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation.

Video from ABC News 7:

This from the Washington Post:
John E. Deasy, the superintendent of Prince George's County schools, will leave his post as the head of Maryland's second-largest school system to take a job as a deputy director of the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation, according to a source with direct knowledge of the matter.

Reached at home last night, Deasy said, "I have been offered a job, and I will make a public announcement of it tomorrow." He declined to give further details, saying only that he had been in "an ongoing conversation for several months" about the job.

Deasy told the board yesterday that he was leaving the 130,000-student Prince George's system for one of the largest private philanthropies in the world, said the source, who spoke on the condition of anonymity because of the sensitivity of the issue. Deasy will leave around February, the source said.

The board held a closed session "to discuss a personnel matter" at 5 p.m. yesterday; public notification of the session was given almost half an hour after the meeting had begun. After the meeting ended, the board's chairman, Verjeana M. Jacobs (At Large), said that she had "positive news" and that a statement would be issued today. ...

1 comment:

Anonymous said...

Deasy lands on his feet no matter how much he lies, cheats and otherwise hoodwinks everyone within earshot; including billionaire Bill Gates. I am so diaappointed at how easily so many of us are led, like sheep, by people who can articulate a message but rarely, if ever, deliver on it. Deasy is a mile wide and an inch deep. He's nothing more than a slick-Willy who publicly says all the things people want to hear and privately talks about what hapless idiots they all are. If anyone ever wants a definition of a hyperactive sociopath with a photographic memory and a Jim Jones gift for conning people into believing anything, just look up MR. John Deasy.