Questions About The Validity Of Her “Mississippi Miracle” And Recent Overreach Of Local Power Give a Clear Answer
If you research Mohammed Choudhury today, you’ll find out that the disgraced former Maryland Superintendent is the new Deputy Superintendent of Leading and Learning for the Fort Worth Independent School District in Texas. If that sounds like deja vu, that’s because before he came to Maryland and became the State Superintendent of Schools, that’s where he worked among other places.
Choudhury resigned in 2023 because he no longer had the support of the Maryland State Board of Education due to allegations of maintaining a toxic work environment as well as questionable transparency regarding reporting of Maryland state test scores. Certainly, his desire to control all the local districts and to hide from accountability forced him out. It didn’t help that he was arrogant and rude with EVERYONE, including powerful members of the State Legislature.
In the wake of his resignation, the Maryland State Board of Education named Carey Wright as the interim Superintendent, supposedly because she was completely different from Choudhury. She was supposed to be reasonable, academically focused, and a person who valued working together with districts rather than taking tyrannical control. She is also an older white woman and Choudhury is the son of immigrants from Bangladesh. Certainly, grandmotherly Wright looks and acts like she would never cross the same lines Choudhury did. She looks like my third-grade teacher, Ms. Cooksey!
As we know, appearances can be deceiving.