Former Clay schools chief resigns Hillsborough post
Former Clay schools chief resigns Hillsborough post
BY DAN HILDEBRAN
ClayCivic.com Publisher
Former Clay County Schools Superintendent Addison Davis resigned as superintendent of the Hillsborough County School District after a three-and-a-half-year tenure.
Davis led Clay County Public Schools from 2016 to 2020 after an 18-year career as a teacher and administrator in Duval County.
In his resignation letter to Hillsborough School Board Chair Nadia Combs, Davis said that while leading the seventh-largest school district in the country, his administration achieved “historic improvements in every facet of the organization.”
The 47-year-old wrote that his leadership team
—led the district through the COVID-19 pandemic,
—erased the district’s $150 million deficit while increasing its fund balance from 0% of revenues to 16% of revenues,
—improved the district’s academic standing from 35th in the state to 19th,
—achieved the district’s highest ever graduation rate of 89.2%, and
—decreased the number of historically underperforming “D” and “F” schools from 28 to 5.
“This is one of the most difficult decisions that I have ever had to make as our work in HCPS in [sic] not done,” Davis wrote. “With this said, I have the opportunity to return to northeast Florida where my entire family resides.”
Davis’s resignation follows the retirement of Duval County Superintendent Diana Greene in May. He told the Tampa Bay Times that although he was not applying for the job in his former school district, he “did not discount the idea that someone might offer it to him.”
Davis was the first superintendent the Tampa Bay-area district hired outside the organization since 1967.
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