Montgomery chooses new schools chief

The Montgomery County school board hired the schools chief of a small, diverse school system in Connecticut to replace retiring Superintendent Jerry Weast. Joshua Starr is the superintendent in Stamford, Conn., a public school system with 20 schools and 15,000 students –roughly one-tenth the size of Montgomery County Public Schools.

“When you’re in this business you want to be with the best, and in many ways Montgomery has been on the forefront,” Starr said in a conference call Monday evening.