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(Miami, FL) - After one year as the Florida Education Commissioner, Anastasios Kamoutsas, is confirming he is set to become the next president of Polk State College.
Commissioner Kamoutsas began his career as an Assistant State Attorney in Miami-Dade County and joined the Florida Department of Education’s Office of General Counsel n 2019.
The school's search committee changed a hiring rule requiring candidates hold a doctorate before recommending Kamoutsas as the college’s sixth president. An official confirmation vote is set for June third. He was also chosen to speak at the Polk State College Commencement.
Additionally, the education commissioner delivered parting shots at the Florida Education association at his final board meeting. After announcing he's departing to run Polk State College, Kamoutsas called the FEA lawsuit against the state voucher program a clown show. Adding that state’s Family Empowerment Scholarship (voucher) program is successful while, the FEA is ineffective.,
"The school choice program is wildly popular with half of all students enrolled in a school choice option." Meanwhile, he adds, "The FEA continues to waste members' dues and taxpayers' dollars on litigation that does nothing to advance student achievement or strengthen our schools."
The FEA lawsuit claims the state’s school voucher program violates the Florida Constitution by taking billions of dollars away from public schools.