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Thomas Elected As New Escambia School Superintendent
November 5, 2008
Republican Malcolm Thomas is the new Escambia County School Superintendent,
Thomas, 54, defeated challenger Claudia Brown-Curry, 52, with 59.8 percent of the vote Tuesday to 40.2 percent for Brown-Curry. Thomas received 84,802 votes, while Brown-Curry had 56,894.
“I’m very humbled by this,” Thomas told NorthEscambia.com late Tuesday night. “I want to thank my supporters and the voters for being my biggest endorsements.”
“We are going to get up each day and work harder,” he said, toward his campaign promises of better student achievement, better pay for teachers making a difference, better discipline and safety, and better transparency and accountability.
Thomas told NorthEscambia.com that his step toward the superintendent’s office would be to put a survey on his web site for input from Escambia residents on the county’s schools. That survey was on his site, malcolmthomas2008.com, before midnight Tuesday. The anonymous survey asks county residents to identify the one area in which the district performs the best and the one area where the school district needs the most improvement.
Thomas has spent about 28 years with the school district, currently service a the district’s director of evaluation services. He has also served the Escambia County School District as a staffing specialist, department head and a classroom teacher. He resides in Cantonment.
Brown-Curry serves as the District 3 representative on the Escambia County School Board. She’s resigned from that post effective November 18. She ran another unsuccessful campaign for superintendent in 2004. She has served as a teacher in the district.
The school superintendent job pays $130,436 per year.
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would you be willing in the future to take a pay cut ,if needed to help improve escambia county school district budget?