Mayor-elect Adrian Fenty will name D.C. school board member Victor Reinoso to become the next deputy mayor for public education, sources tell the Examiner.
Reinoso, 37, is an executive of the Federal City Council and the Board of Education. He has been a consistent voice for reform in D.C.’s failed school system.
He’s one of the first Hispanics to serve on the board of education, elected in 2004.
It’s a heady time for the D.C. schools. Plagued by corruption and waste, the system is in danger of losing its federal funds after the Department of Education rated D.C. ‘high risk’ for shoddy accounting practices.
Mayor-elect Adrian Fenty has promised to take over the schools. Even if he loses that fight — he has encountered resistance from incoming school board president Robert Bobb —Fenty will certainly lead a drastic overhaul of the system.
Reinoso, who, like Fenty is an avid runner, lives in upper Northwest and is the son of a public school teacher. He has a long background in public education, having volunteered to teach interview schools at Ballou and Spingarn High Schools in 1992.
Reinoso has an undergraduate degree in International Relations from Georgetown University and an MBA from the MIT Sloan School of Management Reinoso’s is a welcome appointment, Bobb told The Examiner Wednesday.
“Clearly, he understands the issues before the school board,” Bobb said.
Reinoso also has a good working relationship with schools superintdent Clifford Janey, Bobb said. Reinoso refused comment.
