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April 2016
Leadership continued
"These leaders
possess proven
real-world education
experience and a track
record of improving
student outcomes. "
Commissioner MorathCity (MO) Public Schools. He
led a broad suite of reforms
that radically transformed the
district. As a result of these
efforts, grade-level proficiency
in literacy and numeracy
rose markedly throughout
the district. Graduation rates
also climbed. Additionally, the
district's financial situation
(which had been in a constant
state of disarray and subject to
political corruption) was placed
on solid fiscally conservative
footing. Crabill has also served
on the board of the Missouri
School Boards Association, the
executive committee of the
Council of Great City Schools,
and provided governance
training to school districts
nationwide to help refocus school
board members on the core
mission of improving student
outcomes. Raised as a foster
child, he was born and has been
known as Airick Leonard West
until recently when he honored
a promise to his foster parents
to go through the adult adoption
process, taking their name and
marking the significance of
the journey God put him on to
become Airick Journey Crabill
(or A.J.).Megan
Aghazadian
Deputy
Commissioner
of Operations
Megan Aghazadian
is responsible
for leading the
agency's strategic
planning process
and coordinatingefforts to
ensure performance goals
and milestones are reached in
an effort to improve student
outcomes statewide. She also
oversees the TEA divisions of
Communications, Governmental
Relations and Human Resources.
Aghazadian previously served
as Director of Annual Planning
and Strategic Projects at
the KIPP Foundation, driving
organization-wide planning. In
addition, she has served as the
Director of College Partnerships
on the KIPP Through College
Team, where she developed
KIPP's college partnership
strategy, established 70 college
partnerships nationwide, and
led the launch of KIPP's College
Match campaign. She has
worked on the strategy and
policy team at DC Public Schools
and was Portfolio Director at
the DC Public Education Fund,where she raised more than
$5 million to support strategic
initiatives in DC Public Schools.
While working with The New
Teacher Project, she supported
the implementation of a new
teacher appraisal system in the
Houston Independent School
District. Aghazadian began her
career in education as a middle
school Language Arts teacher in
the Bronx.
Kara Belew
Deputy Commissioner
of Finance
Kara Belew is responsible for
overseeing the TEA divisions of
School Finance, Grants and Fiscal
Compliance, Agency Finance,
as well as the Permanent
School Fund. She previously
served as the Statewide Budget
Director for Gov. Greg Abbott.
Belew also served as Gov. Rick
Perry's Director of Financial
Accountability and Senior
Education Advisor. She is on
the Board and is the former
Chairwoman of A Community
for Education (ACE), a non-
profit dedicated to ensuring
economically disadvantaged
children are reading at grade
level before third grade.Her leadership position with
the agency was previously
announced in February.A complete biography on each deputy commissioner is available
on the TEA website at tea.texas.gov/About TEA/Leadership/
Deputy Commissioner/Deputy Commissioners of Education/.
The Texas Education Agency oversees pre-kindergarten
through high school education for more than five million
students enrolled in both traditional public schools and charter
schools.IA,
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