The candidate selected by Fulton County school board members to be the district’s next superintendent recently spent several days in metro Atlanta meeting with school leaders.
Jeff Rose, a prominent Oregon educator, also met with the board to “set some interim goals before he officially begins his position,” according to a statement from Fulton schools. Rose’s visit took place April 18-21.
Rose will officially join Fulton schools June 1 but visited the school system last week to begin familiarizing himself with the 80-mile-long county.
Fulton announced Rose was the district's sole superintendent finalist March 17, and waited two weeks to offer the position to him so teachers, principals, parents and the community could provide feedback.
He replaces former superintendent Robert Avossa, who left last June to become superintendent in Florida’s Palm Beach County.
Rose has been superintendent of the Beaverton school district in Oregon since 2011. He holds a doctorate in educational leadership and a master’s degree in teacher education from Lewis & Clark College in Oregon and a bachelor’s degree in education from California State University, Long Beach. Before Beaverton, he was superintendent of the Canby School District in Oregon for three years.
One of Rose’s key challenges will be managing a larger system, which has 101 schools and close to 95,000 students. Beaverton, a suburb of Portland, has 51 schools and nearly 40,000 students. It’s the third-largest school district in Oregon.
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