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Politics & Government

Montgomery County School's Superintendent Starr Opens Twitter Account

Social media service will allow community to follow his progress.

Superindent Joshua Starr has switched his Twitter account to @mcpssuper so parents, students and members of the community can get instant updates on his activities. Starr views the social networking service as “a great way to share my experiences with the community” and “one more way I can communicate with our families, staff and students."

On July 1, Montgomery County Public Schools in 12 years. Joshua Starr, who served the Stamford, Connecticut public school system in the same role for the past five years took the reins from the retiring Jerry Weast.

According to his welcome message posted on the MCPS website, Starr “will be spending the next few months listening, learning and meeting with staff, students, parents, community members, business leaders and many others to find out about not only what’s going right, but about where we have room to grow and improve.”

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Don’t have a Twitter account already? You’ll need a Twitter account to follow Superintendent Starr – click this link to sign up and then click the “follow” button on Starr’s page: @mcpssuper.

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