Ex-Duval schools superintendent Diana Greene to run Black, Latinx early literacy nonprofit

Former Duval County schools Superintendent Diana Greene has taken a job as CEO of a nonprofit focused on early literacy in Black and Latinx children.

The Philadelphia-based Children’s Literacy Initiative worked with over 57,000 kids and 3,100 educators during the latest year of projects described in its annual report about the 2021-22 school year.

Greene said she was “thrilled to join an organization that places such immense importance on equity and evidence-based learning, and the science of reading,” according to a release from the organization announcing her hiring.

Greene said she looks forward to “collaborating with school and district partners nationwide to collectively build and sustain powerful learning communities.”

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A former elementary school teacher and former state superintendent of the year, Greene ran Duval County’s school system from 2018 until June, when she retired and was succeeded by her former deputy, Dana Kriznar.

The School Board contracted Kriznar to hold the top job for six months and has begun a search for a permanent superintendent.

The Children’s Literacy Initiative emphasizes on its website its work “to dismantle structural racism by providing Black and Latinx children with the anti-racist early literacy instruction, support, and advocacy needed to create equity in education.”

This article originally appeared on Florida Times-Union: Ex-Duval superintendent Diana Greene to lead minority literacy nonprofit