NEW: Top Providence School Official Leaving
Wednesday, June 22, 2011
The chief of staff to the Providence schools superintendent, Stephanie Federico, confirmed today she is leaving her position to enter the private sector.
“I am moving on,” Federico told GoLocalProv. “Really it’s just that I had a great opportunity I couldn’t pass up.”
Her departure marks the third top school official to leave the Providence school system this year. Earlier in the spring, Superintendent Thomas Brady stepped down, followed in short order by the second-in-command at the district, Sharon Contreras, the Chief Academic Officer.
This summer, Federico will be moving on to Anthony DeSisto & Associates, where she will be working on municipal law, lobbying, and legislative initiatives. She has been in the district three years—one year longer than her original commitment—and, prior to being chief of staff, worked in the administration of former Mayor David Cicilline.
The departure of top school officials comes during a time of turmoil and controversy in the school district—marked by the closures of some schools and the mass terminations of all teachers early this year. Federico told GoLocalProv that those challenges—which she said are common to urban school districts—are part of what’s made her job “exciting, rewarding, and frustrating.”
“Certainly it is not the reason that I am leaving,” she added. “If anything, doing that work ignited my passion for public service.”
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Comments:
Sandy Lane
1:53pm on Wednesday, June 22, 2011
Another coup for Angel! Keep up the good work in Providence buddy...I hear Gallo may be looking for a job soon...
a c
4:10pm on Wednesday, June 22, 2011
I couldn't disagree more Sandy Lane. Miss Federico has taken, and continues to take, public service seriously and isn't that what we want (and should expect) in our public officials? A public servant mindset is what we deserve and crave as constituents in our public officials. Without that core sense of pubic service in our public officials, we move backward in time, not forward.
Sandy Lane
6:29pm on Wednesday, June 22, 2011
A C, All I'm saying is that Taveras forced Brady out, and now another qualified person at the school department (Which is becoming rarer than my Dad's Father's Day Steak!)is leaving because of him. Sorry if I was unclear!
Charles Drago
11:04pm on Wednesday, June 22, 2011
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Stephanie Federico was given the job by David Cicilline not because of her qualifications for it -- she has none -- but because he knew she would do his bidding and be one of many sets of eyes and ears he placed in the School Department.
On Cicilline's watch -- which is to say, in this case, on Federico's watch -- Providence's public schools were driven to the brink of disaster. The district is as low-performing as any in the country, and the blame is rightfully placed on Cicilline and all those who did his foul bidding.
"Qualified"???
Good riddance, Ms. Federico, on the day when Dean Esserman -- another of Cicilline's hand-chosen disasters -- also slinks away.
Light indeed glows at the end of the Cicilline tunnel of horrors.
a c
10:05am on Thursday, June 23, 2011
Charles--So you saying that the schools became underperforming under Cicilline's watch? That's just not right. How does one turnaround schools that were allowed to fail for decades in just 3 or so years while serving in the capacity that she did. OK, I get it. You don't like the former Mayor, but everyone he hired was incompetent? No way. I just don't buy that. The former city council members and mayors prior to 2003 had just as much a hand in this as anyone. If there is any blame to lay, lay it at the doorstep of those folks and not committed public servants.
Charles Drago
11:01am on Thursday, June 23, 2011
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Let us put aside, for a moment, David Cicilline's lies about just how wonderful Providence public schools had become under his watch.
Let us instead observe their condition after eight years of rule by Cicilline and his talentless toadies.
And let us understand your argument: A public school system that is among the worst performing in the nation is the BEST that Cicilliine and his crew of "committed public servants" could create?
Hit the road, "a c" -- which must stand for "amanuensis for cicilline" -- and come back when you've got more than insane editions to the "Cicilline v. Cianci" dodge.
Back to Cicilline's lies about the school system which he all but ruined. Remember how, during the campaign, he boasted about how "proud" he is of the work he's done for Providence schools?
Read the statistics and weep, "a c" -- read 'em and weep for the children whose educational lives were all but destroyed by David Cicilline and his political stooges -- the unqualified Federico among them.