By Alex Davidson
The superintendent and director of operations in Community School District 27 have been selected by the Department of Education to take new positions in the expanded and re-organized city agency headquartered at the Tweed Courthouse in Manhattan.
Matthew Bromme, superintendent for more than three years of the district that includes part of Richmond Hill, Ozone Park, South Ozone Park, Howard Beach and the Rockaway peninsula, is now senior operations manager for the Office of Zoning and Student Placement.
“I will have a tremendous opportunity to help students get a good education,” Bromme said from his new office in Tweed. “I will be scripting a program to ensure all children are given the opportunity for an appropriate education.”
Bromme, a Brooklyn native and resident, began his career in 1970 as a public school teacher. He came to Queens in 1984 as a teacher at IS 73 in District 24 and later became principal of MS 210 in Ozone Park. His responsibilities will include working to determine appropriate zoning of schools, implementing the federal No Child Left Behind Act and admitting high school students.
The former superintendent assumed his new post last week and said he was informed by DOE officials of his new job in late January. He said he already misses his old friends in District 27 even after having only been away from his former office for less than a month.
“They became family to me,” he said. “Even during our times of disagreements, we still had good times.”
Bromme, who has a wife and two children, graduated from Fordham University with a degree in education. He said his passion for education began at an early age.
“I always knew I wanted to be a teacher, but I realized in administration I could make a larger impact on more people,” he said.
Michele Lloyd-Bey is now superintendent of District 27.
Sandy Brawer, a director in the district who was unavailable for comment, will lead a new administrative back-office service center housed in a former district office as part of the new Learning Support Centers.
The learning centers, according to schools Chancellor Joel Klein, will be information points where parents can pose questions to city school officials.
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