In announcing his decision to depart at the end of the school year, Prince George’s County Schools CEO Kevin M. Maxwell acknowledged a cold political reality.
Come the fall, he would lack the support necessary to remain on the job.
His fate was effectively sealed late last month when Angela D. Alsobrooks, the county’s top prosecutor and a leading candidate for county executive, called for Maxwell to step down.
By signaling that she — like Democratic primary rivals Donna F. Edwards and state Sen. C. Anthony Muse — had lost faith in Maxwell’s ability to lead the 132,000-student system, Alsobrooks made it clear that he would be gone by early December, when current County Executive Rushern L. Baker III’s successor is sworn in, regardless of the outcome of the race to succeed him.
And rather than have a transition atop the state’s largest school system occur in the middle of a school year, Maxwell, a career educator, decided to orchestrate a smoother transfer of power.
“I want to thank Dr. Maxwell, a native Prince Georgian, for his service here as a teacher, administrator and CEO,” Baker said in a statement. “Under his leadership, we have expanded all day Pre-Kindergarten, provided more language arts and other specialty programs, steadily increased enrollment and won national acclaim for our programs and students.”
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