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Thomas M. Brady |
Thomas M. Brady
Superintendent
Providence Schools
797 Westminster St
Providence RI 02903
Tel. 401-456-9211
E-mail Supt. Brady
In March 2008, Thomas Brady was appointed Superintendent for Providence Public Schools, the largest district in Rhode Island, serving approximately 24,000 students in 45 schools. He officially assumed the role of Superintendent on July 14, 2008.
Most recently, Brady served as Interim Chief Executive Officer for the School District of Philadelphia, the eighth largest school system in the country, serving nearly 200,000 students in more than 260 schools. He also served the Philadelphia district as Chief Operating Officer.
Prior to that, Brady served as the Chief Operating Officer for the District of Columbia Public Schools, a system with over 75,000 students and over 200 schools.
Brady also served as Chief Operating Officer (COO) for the Fairfax County Public Schools, the 12th largest school district in the United States. As the COO, he was responsible for annual $130 million capital construction budgets.
He also served Fairfax County as the Assistant Superintendent for the Department of Facilities Services, where he directed the management functions of facility planning, school design and construction, building maintenance and energy management for more than 235 school facilities, totaling over 24 million square feet of building space.
Brady actually began his affiliation with Fairfax County as a parent leader, serving as President of the Hayfield Secondary School Parent-Teacher-Student Association for four years.
Prior to his nearly 10 years of service in public education administration, Brady had a distinguished 25-year career in the United States Army where he served as a Colonel. He was the commanding officer at Fort Belvoir, Virginia and oversaw a $770 million budget, $660 million payroll, $94 million in contracts, and over 20,000 residents and military personnel.
Prior to beginning his Army career, Brady used his undergraduate teaching degree to teach social sciences in Niagara Falls, New York.
Brady is a 2004 Fellow of the prestigious Broad Urban Superintendents Academy. The Academy is a rigorous
10-month executive management training program designed to prepare CEOs and senior executives from business,
non-profit, military, government and education backgrounds to lead urban public school systems.
Brady holds a Master’s degree in Human Resource Management from Pepperdine University and a Bachelor’s degree in Education and Social Sciences from Niagara University.
Brady and his wife, Lisa, have five children and six grandchildren. |
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