Diana Greene’s education career reached its zenith in the same place it began.
Next month, the Duval Schools Superintendent will retire after five years on the job and 37 years after she started as a teacher at Mamie Agnes Jones Elementary in Baldwin.
She retires as one of just a small handful of Black women in the country who have served as superintendents of large, urban school districts. Greene is also among a growing number of superintendents in Florida who have resigned, retired or been outright fired by their school boards in the past two years amid a politically fraught education climate in the state.
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