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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]FCPS has many great schools but not many great HQ leaders, to say the least.

Luftglass stuck with BB (a local firm) for well over a decade. Not only was she not proactive in adopting new approaches, she also wasn't proactive in keeping BB up to date (nor even reactive).

Then COVID comes along, and she's seemingly inundated with a whole bunch of new or sped-up requirements. Not a great way to run a massive educational operation. Certainly not fair to her.

That said, had she and team been doing their job of digital transformation over the years, would have been doable.

In other words, if you are going to be CIO of anything for two decades, you better know how to keep evolving. No matter how dysfunctional or static your org, eventually you will get bit in the ass if you don't.

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Aren't the School Board and Dr. Brabrand the people making the final decisions?  [/quote]

Probably, but this is a case where expertise is involved. The superintendent and BOE are not IT experts. That is the CIO's job. The CIO should vet products from a technical perspective, then present options to the board. The board is going to assume the CIO is presenting options that are technically feasible.[/quote]

The Superintendent and the Chair of the School Board ought to know enough to know whether FCPS has a competent IT head who can maintain data security and position FCPS to offer its students state-of-the-art technological learning.  Especially when they are making it a major priority to spend scarce county resources on giving kids their own laptops.

They did not, and Brabrand and Corbett Sanders should be replaced ASAP.  If it's necessary to keep Brabrand around a few more months, so be it, but he should leave by the fall.  Corbett Sanders won't be recalled, but she is way too stupid and self-interested to chair the SB. [/quote]

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