Ed Graff’s Strongest Performance Area as Minneapolis Public Schools Superintendent: Paring the Central School District Bureaucracy at the Davis Center (1250 West Broadway, Minneapolis)

While any evidence of academic improvement at the Minneapolis Public Schools (MPS) during the first year of Ed Graff’s tenure as superintendent is scant to nonexistent, Graff has made significant moves to slim the bureaucracy at MPS central offices, Davis Center, 1250 West Broadway.

Graff has eliminated the position of chief academic officer and subsumed those responsibilities under the newly defined position of Michael Thomas, given below.  He has greatly slimmed the departments of teaching & learning and communications, again enhancing Michael Thomas’s role with the inclusion of the former under his leadership and giving chief of staff Suzanne Kelly authority over the latter.

 

The superintendent has also apparently cut two of the six associate superintendent positions, paring these to four, three for K-8 schools and one (as yet unfilled) position for middle schools and high schools.

 

Here is the new leadership formulation that I have been able to determine:

 

Leadership at the Minneapolis Public Schools

 

Chief of Academics,

Leadership and Learning

 

Michael Thomas

 

Chief of Accountability, Innovation and Research

 

Eric Moore

 

Chief Financial Officer

 

Ibrahima Diop

 

Chief Human Resources Officer

 

Maggie Sullivan

 

Chief Information Officer

 

Fadi Fadhil

 

Chief Operations Officer

 

Karen DeVet

 

Chief of Staff

(Communications and Engagement)

Suzanne Kelly

General Counsel

Amy Moore

Administrator to the Minneapolis Public Schools Board of Education

Jesse Winkler

Associate Superintendents (K-8)

Ron Wagner

Laura Cavender

Lucilla Davilla

 

Associate Superintendent (Middle Schools and High Schools)

 

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