DENVER (AP) - The superintendent for Denver Public Schools, Susan Cordova, will leave her post two years after being voted into the position.
Cordova has accepted a position with the Dallas Independent School District as the deputy superintendent of leading and learning, the Denver Post reported Friday.
Cordova confirmed her resignation at a news conference Friday afternoon. She had spent much of her career at Denver Public Schools serving as a bilingual secondary teacher, a principal of an elementary school and an administrator.
She succeeded Tom Boasberg as superintendent of Colorado’s largest school district, which serves about 93,000 students.
“As the child of Mexican American parents and a first-generation college graduate, I know that I owe a debt of gratitude to DPS, and I have been honored to spend the past 31 years as a member of Team DPS,” Cordova said in a note to staff. “I am sad to be leaving Denver, but I will be eternally grateful to everyone I have worked with and learned from over the past decades.”
Dallas Independent School District serves roughly 154,000 students across 230 schools. The district employs about 220,000 employees, according to its website.
It is currently unclear who will follow Cordova as the head of the school district. Cordova said in her note that she plans on working with the board of education and the senior leadership team to ensure a smooth transition over the coming weeks.
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