MPS' Orlando Ramos is a finalist for superintendent of St. Paul schools

After less than two years in Milwaukee Public Schools, the district's regional superintendent of high schools, Orlando Ramos, may be on his way out.

Ramos is a finalist for superintendent of St. Paul Public Schools in Minnesota, where he has an interview scheduled for Wednesday, he said.

Ramos, 51, was also a finalist for superintendent of the reorganized Detroit Public Schools Community District in Michigan, but he dropped out when he became a finalist in St. Paul.

"St. Paul plays to my strengths," he said Saturday. "They need a healer; they need a unifier."

Ramos said MPS Superintendent Darienne Driver is the best district leader he's ever worked for, but that it's "just the right time" to leave. Under his short tenure, Ramos said MPS high school students have slightly increased their ACT scores in all content areas.

Ramos said he's also a finalist for the superintendent position in Cincinnati Public Schools. And last fall, he made it to the final round of candidates for superintendent of the Allentown Public Schools in Pennsylvania, according to The Morning Call.

MPS hired Ramos in the summer of 2015. Before that, he was associate superintendent of the East Baton Rouge Parish School System in Louisiana.

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