Brittany Chord Parmley, spokeswoman for Newark, N.J.'s embattled school district, is decamping for California.
Parmley worked under Superintendent Cami Anderson, who stepped down in June after four years leading the district and the controversial "One Newark" plan. Christopher Cerf took the school reins in Newark in July as the State of New Jersey turns control over to the city after 20 years of state management.
Parmley served as executive director of communications for Newark Public Schools after a year as regional press secretary for StudentsFirst in Sacramento. Newark is searching for a replacement "chief external relations officer."
NJ Advance Media reported she is taking up a post in the California State Legislature.
She worked on the corporate PR side with Pacific Gas and Electric and was a press deputy for Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger.
Newark received national attention after Facebook chief Mark Zuckerberg pledged $100M to revive the failing district in 2010, a pledge which has withered amid Newark's bureaucracy.
Newark Public Schools' former chief communications officer left for Havas in 2013.
Maggie Moran, who is well-connected in New Jersey and New York Democratic politics, has established Moxie Strategies in Asbury Park, NJ.
Husch Blackwell Strategies has added FleishmanHillard alum Michael Slatin as a principal in its public affairs group.
Rory Cooper, a veteran Republican operative and policy specialist, has joined Teneo’s Washington office as senior managing director in its strategy & communications practice.
Brian Fallon, who served as national press secretary for Hillary Clinton’s 2016 presidential run, is signing on next month as Vice President’s Kamala Harris’ campaign communications director.
TikTok is nothing more than a Chinese propaganda tool that poses “a grave threat to America’s national security and, in particular, impressionable children and young adults,” say two Congressmen who want the platform registered as a foreign agent.
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