Tennessee faculties leader Candice McQueen leaving
Tennessee’s schooling leader is leaving the state government to steer a nonprofit organization focused on attracting, developing, and retaining exceptional educators.
Candice McQueen, 44, will step down in early January to become the CEO of the National Institute for Excellence in Teaching.
Gov. Bill Haslam, whose administration will cease on Jan. 19, introduced his schooling commissioner's impending departure on Thursday.
He plans to name a period in-between commissioner, in keeping with an e-mail from McQueen to her workforce on the training branch.
“While I am excited about this new opportunity, it's far tough to leave this group,” she wrote. “You are laser-focused on doing the proper aspect for Tennessee’s students every unmarried day – and I take coronary heart in unde...