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The Cleveland Metropolitan School District’s chief executive officer has been named the 2016 Urban Educator of the Year at the Council of the Great City Schools’ 60th Annual Fall Conference.
Urban school leaders recognized Eric Gordon during the Council’s 27th Annual “Urban Educator of the Year” award banquet, where he received the prestigious Green-Garner Award by his peers. Nine big-city school superintendents competed for the nation’s highest honor for urban education leadership, recognizing in alternating years an outstanding superintendent and school board member from 70 or the largest urban public school systems in the country.
Gordon took the reins of the district in 2011, a time when the 43,000 students he served lived in neighborhoods suffering from the worst economic decline in the region since the Great Depression. He made a commitment to the children and parents in the community to “do 10 times the work in half the time and do it twice as well.”
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source: Cleveland19.com
