At a press conference today Gov. Christie announced his pick for the new superintendent of Camden Public Schools, Paymon Rouhanifard. After the State Board of Education approves the nomination, Rouhanifard will oversee a 14,000 student district, now under State control, that Christie has called a “human catastrophe.”
Last year Newark superintendent Cami Anderson appointed Rouhanifard, 32 years old, as her chief strategy and innovation office. Previously he served as Deputy Chief of Staff at the New York City Department of Education and, before that, taught in Harlem through Teach for America.
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