page_title: School District of Philadelphia
section_title: Governance
hierarchical_section_title: School District of Philadelphia / Governance
caption_attribution_description: English: North Broad Street, Philadelphia, PA 19130, 400 block, looking south from south of Spring Garden Street towards City Hall, with the Philadelphia Inquirer building (1925) on the left-center, a Liberty Place tower and the Comcast Building in the distance, and the Philadelphia Board of Education Building in the foreground Español: Mirando al sur al School District of Philadelphia Education Center, la sede del distrito (a la derecha)
context_page_description: The School District of Philadelphia is the school district that includes all public schools in Philadelphia. Established in 1818, it is the 8th largest school district in the nation, by enrollment, serving over 200,000 students.
  The school board was created in 1850 to oversee the schools of Philadelphia. The Act of Assembly of April 5, 1867, designated that the Controllers of the Public Schools of Philadelphia were to be appointed by the judges of the Court of Common Pleas. There was one Controller to be appointed from each ward. This was done to eliminate politics from the management of the schools.
  Eventually, the management of the school district was given to a school board appointed by the mayor. This continued until 2001 when the district was taken over by the state, and the governor was given the power to appoint a majority of the five members of the new School Reform Commission. In July 2018, the School Reform Commission was disbanded and control of the district was returned to the city and its newly selected Philadelphia School Board.
context_section_description: The School District of Philadelphia is governed by a nine-member Board of Education. All members are appointed by the Mayor of Philadelphia and approved by Philadelphia City Council. The Board of Education was re-established in July 2018 after seventeen years of governance by a School Reform Commission.
  Leadership
  
  The following is the current district leadership.
  Chief Executive Officer & Superintendent –  William R. Hite, Jr., Ed.D.
  Chief of Staff –  Naomi Wyatt
  Chief of Academic Support –  Cheryl Logan
  Assistant Superintendent of Innovation Network –  Chris Lehmann
  Assistant Superintendent of Opportunity Network –  Christina Grant
  Assistant Superintendent of Turnaround Network –  Eric J. Becoats, Ed.D.
  Chief Executive Officer of The Fund –  Donna Frisby-Greenwood
  Chief External Relations Officer –  Kevin Geary
  Chief Financial Officer –  Uri Monson
  Chief Information Officer –  Melanie S. Harris
  Chief Operating Officer –  Fran Burns
  Chief of Student Support Services –  Karyn T. Lynch
  Executive Director of Charter Schools –  DawnLynne Kacer
  Board of Education
  President- Joyce S. Wilkerson
  Vice-President- Wayne Walker
  Leticia Egea-Hinton
  Julia Danzy
  Mallory Fix-Lopez
  Lee Huang
  Maria McColgan
  Christopher McGinley
  Angela McGiver
  Alfredo Pratico' (Non-Voting Student Member)
  Julia Frank (Non-Voting Student Member)
caption: The School District of Philadelphia Education Center, the Philadelphia Board of Education Building at 440 North Broad Street in the right foreground.
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