DALLAS, Oct. 17 –Romules Durant, Superintendent/CEO of Ohio’s Toledo Public Schools,  received recognition as the 2024 Urban Educator of the Year at the Council of the Great City Schools’ 68th Annual Fall Conference.

Five big-city school superintendents competed for the nation’s highest honor in urban education leadership, recognizing, in alternating years, an outstanding superintendent and school board member from one of the 78 largest urban public-school systems in the country.