Frank Petruzielo is a former school superintendent. Petruzielo previously worked for the

Miami-Dade County Public Schools Miami-Dade County Public Schools (M-DCPS) is a public school district serving Miami-Dade County in the U.S. state of Florida. Founded in 1885, it is the largest school district in Florida and the Southeastern United States, and, , the fourth la ...

. He became the superintendent of the

Houston Independent School District The Houston Independent School District (HISD) is the largest public school system in Texas, and the eighth-largest in the United States. Houston ISD serves as a community school district for most of the city of Houston and several nearby and ...

(HISD) in 1991. Former HISD board member Don McAdams wrote that the hiring process for Petruzielo was fraught with tensions from the African-American community, though he made moves to appease that group and was elected. He served in that capacity for about three and one half years. In 1994 he became the superintendent of

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in Florida. According to McAdams, there had been so much conflict between the Houston city government and McAdams regarding tax requests from the latter that the board chose not to attempt to persuade him to stay at HISD instead of going to Broward County. In 1994 a 300-page report was released that criticized Petruzielo's management while at HISD. From February 1999, to February 1, 2016, he was the superintendent of the Cherokee County School District in Georgia; he retired at the end of his tenure.

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