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| Affiliation | Democratic |
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| Name | Gary Burgess |
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Pendleton, South Carolina , United States |
| Email | None |
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| Contributor | SC-Conservative |
| Last Modifed | RBH
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| Info | Gary L. Burgess, Sr., is a native of Inman, South Carolina. He is a graduate of Wofford College and Converse College. He also received his doctoral degree from the University of South Carolina. He is passionate about meeting the needs of all students in his service to South Carolina by promoting a world-class education for all students that benefit all citizens.
Gary has an impressive action-oriented history regarding school reform and school improvement. He has influenced and overseen the turnabout of suburban middle class school districts, rural schools, rural mill-village schools and urban schools.
In 1988, he co-authored an article published by the National Association of Secondary School Principals titled: “College Start: A Smooth Transition for Minority Students.” Gary’s dissertation, Navigating the Mainstream: The Perceptions of Working Class African-American Males of Barriers to Academic Success in Their Local School Cultures, speaks to the issue of challenges facing black male students as a group. His recently released book, Distorted: Restoring the Intellectual Image of Students of American Slave Descent addresses how to correct the negative psychological and social intellectual conditioning of black students. This conditioning continues to have a detrimental impact on the intellectual growth and academic attainment of African-American students while having a downward pull on the school system; thereby negatively affecting all students.
Gary was named Superintendent-Elect of Hampton County School District Two in April 2009. He is the immediate-past superintendent of Anderson County School District Four located in historic Pendleton, South Carolina. Gary has worked as an adjunct professor with Converse College in Spartanburg, SC, and the Citadel in Charleston, SC. He has been recognized by numerous local, state, regional and national organizations as an educator. Gary was honored as the secondary Principal of the Year for the State of South Carolina in 1996 and was named a Milken National Educator in 1999-2000. Former Governor Jim Hodges appointed him to South Carolina's Juvenile Parole Board and to the John De La Howe Board of Trustees. Gary served as a national site visitor for the United States Department of Education Blue Ribbon Program, in addition to serving as a site visitor for South Carolina’s Exemplary Writing Program and the Palmetto’s Finest Program. He serves on the board of the National Blue Ribbon Schools of Excellence and served as the corporation's Chief Operating Officer.
Gary is the immediate-past chair of the South Carolina Agricultural Education Committee.
Gary was recognized by Visions magazine as one of the top 25 African-American influencers in South Carolina in 1999. He is a former consulting editor with the Clearing House: A journal of educational research, controversy, and practices as well as the editorial board for Education Issues. Gary is a contributor in Curriculum, Religion and Public Education: Conversations for an Enlarging Public Square. He was a guest columnist in P C Teach It, a national education magazine. Gary served (1996-1999) on the Public Religion Project, sponsored by the Pew Charitable Trust, held in the School of Divinity at the University of Chicago. He is highlighted in the HOPE (Harnessing Optimism and Potential through Education) Foundation video series entitled, “Failure is not an Option”. Gary served on the board of the Wofford College National Alumni Association. He was recognized by Wofford as the Outstanding Young Alumnus of the Year in 1997, the first African-American to receive this distinction. Gary was one of five citizens of Anderson County in 2006 to receive the coveted “Pointing the Way Award” given by the Anderson Independent-Mail newspaper.
Gary speaks on the local, state, regional, national and international circuit. He addressed an interdenominational faith youth group on the Lewis Islands in Stornoway, Scotland in May 2000. In September 2000, he was one of two principals nationally to address the National Blue Ribbon Schools Ceremony held in Washington, D. C., sponsored by the United States Department of Education. Gary was the only principal in the nation selected to address the October 2001 National Blue Ribbon Conference held in the nation’s capital (this speech was broadcasted on the worldwide web). Former First Lady Laura Bush also addressed this conference.
Gary presented for the National Educational Policy Fellowship in Miami, FL, in November 2001. He worked with Clemson University, on a Program Assessment and Review Team, to evaluate the Elmira City School District middle schools in New York during April 2002. Gary addressed the National School Reform Conference held in Cleveland, Ohio in June 2002. He presented December 2002 and 2003 at the National Education Reform Conference in Orlando, Florida at Disney World. In July 2003, Gary completed a Superintendent’s Leadership Seminar at Columbia University in New York City. He was the 2008 Baccalaureate speaker for the graduates of Benedict College. In April 2009, he conducted a forum, during a national institute in Reading Massachusetts, addressing how educators might successfully engage African-American students and students in poverty in the academic culture of their schools.
Gary is married to the former Quintella Marie Howard of Chicago, Illinois; she is an elder in the Universal Body of Christ Church. They have three children, Lee, Alexandra, and Nathan. Gary and his family have three pets- Sneaky, Keeko and Clemson.
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