Octavio visiedo biography for kids

The Dade County, Fla., school board has chosen Octavio Visiedo, deputy superintendent of administrative services, to be the new superintendent of the district, the fourth largest in the nation.

Mr.

Visiedo, 39, is the youngest person ever to head the ,student district.

He succeeds the late Paul Bell, who died last month, only seven months after taking over from Joseph A. Fernandez, who left to assume the chancellorship of the New York City public schools.

Robert E.

Boose is the new executive director of the New Jersey School Boards Association.

The deputy director of the association since March , Mr. Boose was commissioner of education in Maine from to

He succeeds Octavius T.

Reid Jr., who resigned last spring following a state investi and charges that he improperly used and mishandled association funds. (See Education Week, Oct. 10, ) He has been acting director since Mr. Reid’s resignation.

David A.

Micklos, a former high-school teacher who directs the DNA Le